Senior Staff Engineer Structures and Vibration
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 define structural standards and requirements, own system loads, and lead static, dynamic, fatigue, composite, vibration, and shock analyses. You will improve test processes, optimize weight, review engineering evidence, mentor engineers, and provide structural guidance for design and production issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline
- 12+ years of structural analysis experience on aircraft, UAS, or comparable systems
- Experience serving as a structural lead or technical authority
- Experience creating structural design criteria, analysis methods, or engineering standards
- Expert knowledge of structural mechanics, strength, stability, fatigue, and structural dynamics
- Expertise with FEA tools such as Siemens Simcenter, ANSYS, or Abaqus
- Experience analyzing composite aircraft structures
- Expert knowledge of bolted-joint analysis and design
- Experience with vibration and shock testing and MIL-STD-810
- Experience mentoring engineers
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain structural standards and design criteria
- Own system loads and define structural requirements for subsystems, components, and suppliers
- Lead static, stability, modal, dynamic, and fatigue analyses
- Lead composite structural analysis and define composite design requirements
- Serve as the bolted-joint expert
- Own vibration and shock environments and develop test requirements
- Improve vibration test planning, verification, validation, and model-to-test correlation
- Lead structural weight-optimization reviews
- Review analyses and test reports and present findings
- Mentor engineers in FEA and structural fundamentals
- Provide structural guidance for design changes and production issues
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity