Staff Engineer Thermal Engineering
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 avionics thermal management from concept through production. You will define thermal requirements and architecture, build and validate heat-transfer and fluid-flow models, lead testing and qualification, guide design decisions, manage suppliers, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline
- At least 8 years of avionics or electronics thermal-engineering experience
- Expert knowledge of heat transfer and fluid mechanics
- Experience integrating active and passive cooling solutions
- Knowledge of TIMs, spreaders, heat sinks, cold plates, vapor chambers, heat pipes, and fans
- Advanced proficiency with thermal analysis and CFD tools such as ANSYS Icepak, FloEFD, or STAR-CCM+
- Experience with CAD tools such as NX or SolidWorks
- Experience with PLM-controlled design release
- Experience planning and executing thermal qualification and verification testing
- Technical leadership and engineering mentorship experience
- Written and verbal technical communication skills
Responsibilities
- Own avionics thermal management from concept through production
- Define thermal architecture, requirements, environments, and interfaces
- Develop, review, and approve heat-transfer and fluid-flow models
- Lead trade studies, architecture decisions, and thermal risk assessments
- Define qualification and verification strategies
- Lead test planning, instrumentation, data analysis, and model correlation
- Influence electrical and PCBA thermal design decisions
- Author thermal specifications and statements of work
- Evaluate and direct thermal hardware suppliers
- Lead thermal design reviews and produce technical reports
- Mentor engineers and guide cross-disciplinary teams
- Identify thermal risks and drive mitigations to closure
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity