# Senior Vibrations Test Engineer (R5091)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Dallas, Texas
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 112,439-168,659 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Vibrations Test Engineer to join its X-BAT Engineering - Mechanical team. The successful candidate will lead efforts to characterize hardware response, validate analytical models, and ensure products can withstand demanding operational environments.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the planning, execution, and analysis of vibration test programs supporting product development, qualification, and flight readiness.

- Design, build, and deploy instrumented test setups for vibration, modal, structural, and environmental testing using industry-standard measurement equipment.

- Execute shaker table testing including sine sweep, random vibration, sine-on-random, resonance search, dwell, and shock testing.

- Perform experimental modal analysis to characterize structural dynamics and validate finite element models.

- Develop fixture designs and test methodologies that accurately replicate operational loading conditions while minimizing fixture influence.

- Instrument hardware using accelerometers, strain gauges, force sensors, displacement sensors, and other dynamic measurement systems.

- Analyze vibration response data using frequency-domain and time-domain techniques to identify resonances, mode shapes, damping characteristics, and potential failure mechanisms.

- Partner closely with Mechanical Design and Structural Analysis engineers to correlate test results with analytical models and improve future designs.

- Investigate vibration-related hardware issues, perform root cause analysis, and recommend design improvements.

- Develop comprehensive test plans, procedures, reports, and technical presentations that clearly communicate results and engineering recommendations.

- Maintain vibration testing equipment, data acquisition systems, instrumentation, and calibration records.

- Support environmental qualification testing and other mechanical test activities as needed.

Requirements:

- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

- Hands-on experience performing vibration testing of mechanical or aerospace systems.

- Experience operating electrodynamic shaker systems and associated vibration control software.

- Experience with accelerometers, signal conditioning, data acquisition systems, and dynamic instrumentation.

- Working knowledge of structural dynamics, vibration theory, modal analysis, and frequency response functions.

- Experience performing or supporting experimental modal testing and finite element model correlation.

- Familiarity with MIL-STD-810 vibration and shock testing or equivalent aerospace qualification standards.

- Experience interpreting vibration data and identifying resonances, structural response characteristics, and failure modes.

- Working knowledge of CAD software (NX preferred).

- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical findings to multidisciplinary teams.

- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of technical work, drive projects independently, and deliver high-quality results in a fast-paced engineering environment.

- Ability to obtain a Secret//Special Access Required (S//SAR) security clearance is desired.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- Structural Engineering
- Vibration Testing
- Modal Analysis
- Finite Element Models
- Accelerometers
- Signal Conditioning
- Data Acquisition Systems
- Dynamic Instrumentation
- MIL-STD-810
- CAD Software

### Nice to have
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Structural Engineering
- Experience designing vibration test fixtures and specialized dynamic test equipment
- Experience using vibration control and data acquisition platforms
- Finite Element Analysis Software
- Strain Gauge Testing
- Digital Image Correlation
- Design of Experiments

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