Senior Flight Operations Technician
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
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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.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build, modify, maintain, and repair prototype unmanned aircraft and test systems. You will integrate avionics and electrical hardware, fabricate components, troubleshoot aircraft and HIL equipment, support ground and flight testing, maintain technical documentation, operate at test sites, and mentor technicians.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in UAS, aviation, aerospace, robotics, electronics, manufacturing, test support, or a related technical field
- Mechanical and electrical aptitude for complex electromechanical systems
- Experience integrating hardware into aircraft, robotics, prototypes, or test systems
- Electrical experience with wiring, connectors, soldering, crimping, cable fabrication, and troubleshooting
- Experience with HIL rigs, test stands, test fixtures, or similar integration environments
- Ability to read mechanical drawings, wiring diagrams, schematics, and engineering documentation
- Experience with rapid prototyping and iterative hardware development
- Ability to troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, communications, and system-level problems
- Experience using mechanical and electrical tools and test equipment
- Experience supporting engineering, ground, flight, or field testing
- Valid driver’s license
- Ability to travel within Ukraine
Responsibilities
- Build, modify, assemble, maintain, and repair prototype unmanned aircraft and test systems
- Install and integrate avionics, sensors, compute hardware, radios, antennas, payloads, and wiring
- Fabricate prototype and replacement components using rapid-prototyping methods
- Build and troubleshoot wiring harnesses, connectors, electrical assemblies, and aircraft electrical systems
- Build, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot HIL rigs and test fixtures
- Integrate aircraft hardware into HIL and bench-test environments
- Diagnose mechanical, electrical, avionics, communications, networking, and system-level issues
- Support SIL, HIL, VIL, bench, ground, and live-flight testing
- Perform aircraft inspections, maintenance, repairs, configuration changes, and pre- and post-flight activities
- Maintain prototyping and flight-operations lab equipment, spares, batteries, and tools
- Support flight operations, field deployments, launch and recovery, and test-site setup
- Maintain aircraft, maintenance, configuration, inventory, and technical documentation
- Transport personnel and equipment to test sites and travel within Ukraine
- Mentor less-experienced technicians and maintain safety and configuration-control standards