# Staff Engineer, Landing Gear Systems (R5372)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Dallas, Texas
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 130,000-200,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Engineer, Landing Gear Systems to contribute to the mechanical design and development of autonomous UAV products. The successful candidate will help architect landing gear on next-generation unmanned aerial platforms, perform detailed design of landing gear, doors, and related mechanisms, and collaborate with internal and external partners to prototype, test, and release products to production.

Responsibilities:

- Design electro-mechanical or hydro-mechanical landing gear for autonomous aircraft

- Own the full design process: concept, CAD design, analysis, tolerance stackups, material selection, and drawing release

- Perform structural and kinematic calculations and preliminary FEA

- Prototype, test, and iterate mechanism designs for functionality and reliability

- Collaborate with electrical, avionics, hydraulics, and structures teams

- Support pre-production builds, prototype integration, and ground/flight testing

Required qualifications:

- B.S. in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering

- 7+ years in mechanical or mechanism design

- Strong CAD skills (NX preferred)

- Experience with UAVs, aircraft, rotorcraft, or other landable air systems

- Kinematic analysis and optimization of retractable landing gear systems

- Knowledge of tire, wheel, and brake selection along with brake control systems

- Familiarity with nose wheel steering systems

- Structural analysis utilizing hand calculations and finite element methods

- FEA analysis: Modal, non-linear and linear, buckling, fatigue

- GD&T and tolerance stack-ups for mechanical systems

- Materials selection inclusive of alloys, heat treatments, allowables, and finishes

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

Preferred qualifications:

- Familiarity with electro-mechanical actuators

- Proficiency in FMEA, DOE, and root cause analysis

- Hands-on machine shop or mechanic experience (professional or hobby)

- RTCA DO-160, MIL-STD-810, structural, actuated mechanism, or AS6053 drop testing experience

- Ability to thrive in startup, R&D, or defense innovation environments

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- CAD design
- UAVs
- aircraft
- rotorcraft
- kinematic analysis
- FEA analysis
- structural analysis
- materials selection

### Nice to have
- electro-mechanical actuators
- FMEA
- DOE
- root cause analysis
- machine shop experience
- RTCA DO-160
- MIL-STD-810
- AS6053 drop testing

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