# Component Engineer

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: USA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/a64042bd-5490-4ef7-9e93-38e1b120b1d3
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_5765a602-c45

## Description

Shield AI is redefining autonomous aviation with cutting-edge AI and GPS/RF-denied navigation technologies. As a Component Engineer, you'll own the selection, qualification, and lifecycle management of electronic components across our products. You will drive component decisions that reduce risk, control cost and ensure long-term product reliability and survivability.

Responsibilities:

- Own component data and governance in PLM (part creation, attributes, AML/AVL, lifecycle states)

- Review and approve new component requests

- Define baseline quality requirements for COTS components and enforce them through design BOM reviews

- Monitor and assess PCNs and lifecycle changes (NRND/EOL), and drive mitigation actions through Engineering Change Orders (ECOs)

- Partner with Electrical Engineering to select components that meet performance, cost, and availability targets

- Build and maintain preferred parts lists and approved vendor lists (AVL)

- Support supply chain with alternate part evaluations and second-sourcing strategies

- Engage directly with suppliers to resolve technical questions

Required qualifications:

- B.S. in an engineering field.

- 5+ years of relevant experience

- Understanding of Product Lifecycle Management (Arena, Teamcenter), ECAD tools (Altium) and structured component libraries

- Strong judgment in balancing performance, cost and supply chain risk

- Demonstrated track record of ownership, high standards, and effective collaboration

Preferred qualifications:

- Degree in electrical engineering or computer science

- Familiar with industry-standard component qualification process (AEC-Q, NASA, JEDEC, MIL, etc)

- Knowledge of electrical component manufacturing processes and common failure modes.

- Proficiency in Python/SQL

- Experience writing specifications/standards for internal company distribution

## Skills

### Required
- Product Lifecycle Management
- ECAD tools
- structured component libraries
- Python
- SQL

### Nice to have
- electrical engineering
- computer science
- industry-standard component qualification process
- electrical component manufacturing processes
- specifications/standards