# Avionics Specialist

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: U.S.
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## 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 supports the entire Avionics team and other cross-functional teams. It is an essential role spanning design, verification, procurement, manufacturing, and test.

Key responsibilities include:

- Setting up and executing test campaigns for custom circuits and sub-systems such as verifying logic levels, voltage rails, and basic circuit functions

- Supporting engineers through environmental qualification that includes temperature, vibration, altitude, humidity, etc.

- Debugging and root causing system and circuit issues

- Designing, verifying, and deploying simple PCBAs

- Architecting, designing, and building complex wire harnesses and cable assemblies

- Assisting with equipment procurement, setting up lab space, and helping set up prototype avionics manufacturing

- Capturing results in detailed and clear documentation

Required qualifications include:

- 2+ years' experience working in an electrical engineering environment and using test equipment such as an oscilloscope, multimeter, thermal chamber, etc.

- Proficiency reading electrical circuit schematics and applying them to root cause analysis

- Hands-on experience with harness design and build

- Familiarity with CAD software such as Altium or equivalent

- Familiarity with a PLM system such as Arena or equivalent

- Ability to work independently and lead in fast-paced, cross-functional teams

- A demonstrated record of working hard, being trustworthy, holding yourself to high standards, and being kind to others

## Skills

### Required
- electrical engineering
- test equipment
- circuit schematics
- harness design
- CAD software
- PLM system

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