Description
Shield AI is seeking a Field Engineer to support the shipboard installation, integration, and fielding of the V-BAT unmanned aircraft system on maritime platforms. This role sits at the intersection of hardware integration, RF systems, and customer operations, and is critical to ensuring successful deployment, system performance, and customer confidence in operational environments.
The ideal candidate is hands-on, adaptable, comfortable working aboard ships, and capable of serving as a technical authority in forward-deployed and customer-facing environments.
Key responsibilities include:
Shipboard Installation & Integration: Installing and integrating the V-BAT UAV system on maritime platforms, ensuring installations comply with shipboard safety standards, EMI/EMC requirements, and platform-specific operational constraints.
Radio Configuration & Calibration: Configuring, calibrating, and validating communication systems, performing link testing, spectrum checks, and interference mitigation in complex maritime RF environments.
Customer & Platform Coordination: Working directly with customers, ship crews, and program stakeholders to understand ship-unique requirements and operational needs.
System Checkout & Verification: Conducting post-installation inspections, functional testing, and system verification to ensure operational readiness.
Documentation & Reporting: Documenting installation configurations, calibration data, deviations, and lessons learned.
Field Support & Troubleshooting: Diagnosing and resolving hardware, integration, and RF issues in deployed and shipboard environments.
Flight Test & System Test Support (As Needed): Supporting and assisting with flight testing activities under the System Test team during off-ship periods, as operational schedules allow.
This role requires a B.S. degree in a STEM discipline, experience with field installation, integration, or sustainment of complex electromechanical or RF systems, and hands-on experience with radios, antennas, cabling, and networking equipment.