Staff Engineer Fuel Systems Ranger
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 own aircraft fuel-system requirements, architecture, hardware, and technical decisions from concept through deployment. You will design and integrate fuel-system components, analyze performance, lead reviews and supplier engagements, execute testing, investigate failures, and improve flight hardware using ground and flight data.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
- 7 or more years of experience in aerospace fuel systems, fluid systems, propulsion, or related aircraft system development
- Understanding of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and compressible and incompressible flow
- Understanding of aerospace fuel-system design
- Hands-on experience with fluid-system hardware integration, instrumentation, testing, flight support, and failure investigations
- Proficiency in Python or similar engineering-analysis tools
- Ability to drive ambiguous technical problems to measurable results
- U.S. citizenship and active security clearance
Responsibilities
- Own fuel-system requirements, architecture, interfaces, hardware, and technical decisions
- Design, size, and integrate fuel tanks, pumps, valves, plumbing, venting, pressurization, filtration, and level-sensing hardware
- Analyze fuel-system performance across the aircraft operating envelope
- Lead design reviews, supplier engagements, and hardware procurement
- Plan and execute component, subsystem, and vehicle-level testing
- Analyze ground and flight data to validate performance and improve hardware or operations
- Lead failure investigations and root-cause analysis
- Collaborate on building, integrating, troubleshooting, and iterating flight hardware
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity