# Engineer I, Mechanical (R6302)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 81,000-140,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.

As a Mechanical Engineer on the Mechanisms team, you will contribute to the design, development, and integration of mechanical systems for Shield AI’s autonomous aircraft.

## Responsibilities:

- Support the design and integration of mechanical mechanisms for autonomous aircraft, potentially including gearboxes and other power-transmission systems

- Create and update 3D CAD models, engineering drawings, bills of materials, and interface documentation

- Complete defined design tasks involving component sizing, material selection, tolerance analysis, and mechanical packaging

- Perform foundational structural, kinematic, and machine-design calculations with guidance from senior engineers

- Assist with preliminary finite element analysis and document assumptions, methods, and results

- Support the selection and integration of gears, bearings, shafts, splines, seals, fasteners, and lubrication components

- Help build, inspect, test, and iterate prototype hardware for functionality, performance, and reliability

- Support pre-production builds, aircraft integration, and ground and flight testing

- Investigate well-defined technical issues, document findings, and contribute to root-cause and corrective-action activities

- Collaborate with mechanical, propulsion, electrical, avionics, flight-controls, manufacturing, and test teams

- Follow established engineering, configuration-management, and product-release processes

- Develop plans for assigned tasks, communicate progress and risks, and incorporate feedback from teammates

## Requirements:

- 0-1 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent work experience

- Understanding of fundamental mechanical engineering principles, including statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, materials science, and machine design

- Academic, internship, student-team, research, or project experience using 3D CAD software

- Ability to create or interpret basic engineering drawings

- Familiarity with dimensional tolerancing and GD&T fundamentals

- Ability to perform foundational engineering calculations and clearly document assumptions and results

- Hands-on interest in designing, building, integrating, or testing mechanical hardware

- Strong problem-solving, organization, documentation, and communication skills

- Ability to complete well-defined engineering tasks with guidance from peers and managers

- Ability to collaborate effectively, accept feedback, and work in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities

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

- Ability to obtain an S//SAR-level security clearance is desired

## Preferred Qualifications:

- Internship, student-team, research, or project experience involving aircraft, UAVs, robotics, automotive systems, or other mechanical products

- Coursework or project experience related to gearboxes, gearing, bearings, shafts, splines, seals, lubrication, or rotating machinery

- Familiarity with gear geometry, gear-train calculations, bearing selection, or mechanical power transmission

- Experience with NX or a similar production CAD platform

- Exposure to tolerance stack-ups, mechanical fits, and GD&T application

- Exposure to finite element analysis, including static, modal, buckling, or fatigue analysis

- Familiarity with MATLAB, Python, or other engineering analysis tools

- Hands-on machine-shop, mechanic, fabrication, assembly, or inspection experience through professional, academic, or hobby activities

- Exposure to FMEA, design of experiments, root-cause analysis, or reliability testing

- Familiarity with additive manufacturing, machining, casting, forging, or other mechanical manufacturing processes

- Exposure to RTCA DO-160, MIL-STD-810, structural testing, vibration testing, or mechanism testing

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

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- 3D CAD software
- engineering drawings
- dimensional tolerancing
- GD&T fundamentals
- foundational engineering calculations

### Nice to have
- aircraft
- UAVs
- robotics
- automotive systems
- gearboxes
- gearing
- bearings
- shafts
- splines
- seals
- lubrication
- rotating machinery
- NX or similar production CAD platform
- tolerance stack-ups
- mechanical fits
- finite element analysis
- MATLAB
- Python

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