Power System - High Voltage Specialist/Sr. Technician (R4728)

@ Shield AI

Power System - High Voltage Specialist/Sr. Technician (R4728)

Posted 6 months ago

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About the job

Shield AI, founded in 2015, develops AI-powered aerospace systems for defense. The role focuses on testing, verification, and support of high voltage power systems for the X-BAT aircraft's avionics.

Requirements

2+ years high voltage experience
Benchtop testing with EE tools
PCBA and harness rework
Reading schematics proficiency
Multidisciplinary hardware experience

Qualifications

Experience with high power systems
Ability to interpret schematics
Ownership and results-driven
Trustworthy team player

Full job description

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

Job Description:

We are growing the Avionics Engineering team to support development of the X-BAT aircraft. Our team is designing a flight critical, custom avionics system to support communications, compute, AI, power, telemetry, and all other needed aircraft systems.

An Avionics Specialist/Sr. Technician - High Voltage supports the entire Avionics team and other cross-functional teams. It is an essential role spanning design, verification, procurement, manufacturing, and test. You will work specifically with the Power Systems team as they design and verify all X-BAT high voltage power systems. This includes the generator, battery, and all power converters.

What you'll do:

Set up and execute test campaigns for custom circuits and sub-systems such as verifying logic levels, voltage rails, and basic circuit functions
Perform benchtop PCBA testing and debugging
Support engineers through environmental qualification that includes temperature, vibration, altitude, humidity, etc.
Design, verify, and deploy simple PCBAs, fixtures, and harnesses
Assist with the avionics lab design and buildout

Required qualifications

2+ years working around high voltage, high power systems. Such as 270V and higher
Experience performing benchtop testing with basic EE equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope, electronic load, thermal chamber, etc.)
Experience performing PCBA and harness rework
Proficiency reading and interpreting schematics
Experience working on multidisciplinary hardware development projects, which can be from an internship, job, club, team, personal project, etc…
Demonstrated history of showing ownership of project outcomes and delivering exceptional results
Record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others
Ability to obtain a S//SAR level security clearance desired.

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Full-time regular employee offer package:

Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee offer package:

Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.

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Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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