Propulsion Test Engineer
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
Investors
About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
Skills
About the Role
You will plan, execute, and analyze engine, hover, static, and integrated propulsion tests. You will define objectives and instrumentation, prepare safety documentation, oversee test operations, investigate performance issues, and evaluate propulsion interactions with autonomy and avionics systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 8+ years of propulsion-testing experience with jet engines, VTOL systems, unmanned aircraft, or developmental flight-test programs.
- Expertise executing and analyzing engine tests, hover and transition events, and integrated propulsion-airframe testing.
- Understanding of engine controls, FADEC systems, thrust measurement, thermal analysis, and vibration and loads behavior.
- Experience writing and reviewing high-energy test procedures, readiness documentation, and hazard analyses.
- Ability to operate safely in fast-paced test environments.
- Communication skills and experience in multidisciplinary engineering organizations.
- Ability to travel and support extended field-test deployments.
Responsibilities
- Support propulsion test campaigns through planning, execution, and post-test analysis.
- Define test objectives, test points, build-up approaches, success criteria, and instrumentation requirements.
- Develop and review test procedures, hazard analyses, run cards, and safety documentation.
- Provide technical oversight during engine runs, hover tests, transition testing, and propulsion-autonomy integration events.
- Serve as a propulsion subject-matter expert during readiness reviews, hazard analyses, and risk assessments.
- Support root-cause investigations involving propulsion performance, engine controls, thermal behavior, vibration, and integration.
- Evaluate propulsion interactions with autonomy and avionics systems.
- Collaborate with instrumentation engineering to ensure test-data quality, processing, reporting, timing, and fidelity.
- Support field deployments, remote test sites, and intensive test cycles.
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity