# Flight Ops Technician **Company**: Shield AI **Location**: Lviv **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/19f587da-4be7-4223-afae-a0050d3d29b8?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_1ca0e281-92f ## Description Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. The Flight Ops Technician III is a senior, hands-on technical role supporting the development, testing, and operation of unmanned aircraft systems in Ukraine. The role bridges aircraft prototyping, hardware integration, HIL/ground testing, aircraft maintenance, and field flight operations, working closely with hardware, software, autonomy, and flight-test teams. ## Responsibilities: - Build, modify, assemble, maintain, and repair prototype unmanned aircraft and related test systems. - Install and integrate avionics, sensors, compute hardware, radios, antennas, payloads, wiring, and other experimental hardware. - Fabricate prototype and replacement components using 3D printing, hand and power tools, and other rapid-prototyping methods. - Build, modify, and troubleshoot wiring harnesses, connectors, electrical assemblies, and aircraft electrical systems. - Build, wire, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot HIL rigs, test fixtures, and related engineering test infrastructure. - Integrate flight computers, avionics, sensors, actuators, communications equipment, and other aircraft hardware into HIL and bench-test environments. - Diagnose mechanical, electrical, avionics, communications, networking, and system-level issues across aircraft and test equipment. - Support SIL, HIL, VIL, bench, ground, and live-flight testing, including aircraft functional checks and troubleshooting. - Perform aircraft inspections, maintenance, repairs, configuration changes, and pre- and post-flight activities. - Help establish and maintain a local prototyping and flight-operations lab, including tools, test equipment, fabrication equipment, spares, batteries, and support equipment. - Support flight operations, including aircraft setup, launch and recovery, test-site setup and teardown, and preparation of equipment for field deployments. - Maintain aircraft, test-system, maintenance, configuration, inventory, and other technical documentation. - Work closely with hardware, software, autonomy, and flight-test engineers to rapidly diagnose problems, implement modifications, and improve test capabilities. - Transport personnel and equipment to test sites and travel within Ukraine to support testing, demonstrations, and operations. - Mentor less-experienced technicians and maintain high standards for workmanship, configuration control, organization, and safety. ## Required Qualifications: - 5+ years of hands-on experience in UAS, aviation, aerospace, robotics, electronics, manufacturing, test support, or a related technical field. - Strong mechanical and electrical aptitude with experience building, modifying, maintaining, or repairing complex electromechanical systems. - Experience integrating hardware into aircraft, robotics, prototypes, test systems, or comparable platforms. - Hands-on electrical experience, including wiring, connectors, soldering, crimping, cable fabrication, and electrical troubleshooting. - Experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting HIL rigs, test stands, test fixtures, or similar hardware/software integration environments. - Ability to read and work from mechanical drawings, wiring diagrams, schematics, and engineering documentation. - Experience with rapid prototyping, fabrication, and iterative hardware development. - Ability to systematically troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, communications, and system-level problems. - Experience using common mechanical and electrical tools and test equipment. - Experience supporting engineering, ground, flight, or field testing. - Strong attention to detail, workmanship, safety, and configuration control. - Ability to work independently and solve technical problems in fast-moving workshop, laboratory, flight-line, and field environments. - Valid driver's license and ability to transport equipment and personnel to operational sites. - Ability to travel within Ukraine as required. ## Preferred Qualifications: - Experience maintaining or integrating fixed-wing and multirotor UAS. - Experience with autonomous or experimental aircraft and Group 1 or Group 2 UAS. - Experience building or maintaining HIL environments for aircraft, robotics, or autonomous systems. - Experience with 3D printing, CAD, and prototype part fabrication. - Experience integrating avionics, flight computers, sensors, actuators, radios, antennas, or payload systems. - Experience with PX4, ArduPilot, or similar flight-control systems. - Familiarity with Ground Control Stations, telemetry, RF systems, datalinks, and networking. - Familiarity with Linux, command-line tools, scripting, or basic software troubleshooting. - Experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, or similar electrical test equipment. - Experience establishing or maintaining an engineering lab, prototype shop, HIL lab, or flight-operations facility. - Background in defense, aerospace, robotics, aircraft maintenance, manufacturing, or flight test. - Experience working in austere or rapidly changing field environments. - Ukrainian and English language proficiency. ## Skills ### Required - UAS - aviation - aerospace - robotics - electronics - manufacturing - test support - mechanical aptitude - electrical aptitude - HIL rigs - rapid prototyping - fabrication - iterative hardware development - troubleshooting - electrical tools - test equipment ### Nice to have - fixed-wing UAS - multirotor UAS - autonomous aircraft - Group 1 or Group 2 UAS - HIL environments - 3D printing - CAD - prototype part fabrication - avionics integration - flight computers - sensors - actuators - radios - antennas - payload systems - PX4 - ArduPilot - flight-control systems - Ground Control Stations - telemetry - RF systems - datalinks - networking - Linux - command-line tools - scripting - software troubleshooting - oscilloscopes - logic analyzers - power supplies - electrical test equipment --- Source: [Apply at jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/19f587da-4be7-4223-afae-a0050d3d29b8?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)