# Staff Engineer, Electrical Failure Analysis

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Dallas
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000 - $220,000 a year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/d12619b5-ab54-4797-9d1c-9b0a6ab3a281
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_94470529-e1d

## Description

Shield AI is pioneering AI pilots for aircraft that protect service members and civilians. We are looking for a failure analysis engineer to join our team, focused on the design, integration and troubleshooting of electronics systems critical to our aircraft.

This role is perfect for an engineer with a solid foundation in power systems, embedded systems who is eager to grow, own challenging projects, and see their work move rapidly from concept to flight. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy solving complex problems, and want to help build the future of autonomous aviation, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

* Lead failure analysis investigations for avionics hardware, including: PCBAs (digital, analog, power, mixed-signal), harnesses, connectors, and interconnects
* Perform root cause analysis (RCA) using structured methodologies (8D, 5-Why, Fishbone, Fault Tree, etc.)
* Conduct and/or oversee electrical, mechanical, and environmental failure analysis
* Collaborate with design engineers to identify design vulnerabilities, manufacturing and suppliers on process-related issues
* Work closely with cross-functional teams (reliability, mechanical, embedded, software, production, supply chain, etc.)
* Drive design, process, and supplier corrective actions to closure
* Author clear, data-driven failure analysis reports and present findings to technical and program leadership
* Mentor junior engineers and help establish best practices for failure analysis and reliability

Required qualifications:

* Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering; or equivalent work experience
* 8+ years of experience in failure analysis, reliability, or hardware debug for aerospace, defense, or high-reliability electronics
* Strong technical fundamentals
* Experienced with cross-sectioning, microscopy, X-ray, and other FA techniques
* Strong hands-on experience with PCBA failure mechanisms (solder joints, vias, components, PCB materials), Harnesses, connectors, crimping, shielding, and interconnect reliability
* Demonstrated track record of extreme ownership, working hard, and delivering outstanding outcomes
* A track record of successfully delivery of products and solutions, overcome obstacles, and deliver high-quality solutions to meet project deadlines and exceed expectations in a fast-paced environment
* Proactively identify opportunities for improvement within organization, demonstrating initiative to propose and implement innovative solutions that enhance efficiency, quality, and overall project success and aircraft reliability
* Ability to independently drive investigations from symptom to root cause

$150,000 - $220,000 a year

## Skills

### Required
- Failure analysis
- Reliability
- Hardware debug
- Aerospace
- Defense
- High-reliability electronics
- Cross-sectioning
- Microscopy
- X-ray
- PCBA failure mechanisms
- Harnesses
- Connectors
- Crimping
- Shielding
- Interconnect reliability