# HIL and Infrastructure Lab Technician (R6008) **Company**: Shield AI **Location**: Washington, D.C. **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full Time Employee **Salary**: USD 29.8-44.7 per-hour-wage **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/25f8b230-d836-4fe7-88fa-441d0579f2f5?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ba77cb09-64a ## Description Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. You will own the day-to-day management, readiness, organization, and growth of Hivemind's Hardware-in-the-Loop and engineering laboratories. ## Responsibilities - Own daily operations and technical readiness for HIL and infrastructure laboratories, ensuring systems, workspaces, tools, documentation, and shared resources are available and ready for engineering use - Build, install, configure, inspect, and maintain HIL racks, test benches, compute systems, network equipment, storage, power distribution, simulation hardware, flight hardware, and supporting lab infrastructure - Own and maintain accurate asset control for lab and program equipment, including receiving, tagging, serial-number tracking, location, custody, configuration, calibration, maintenance, spares, and disposition records - Manage lab schedules, equipment reservations, maintenance windows, integration priorities, and competing cross-program demands in coordination with software, hardware, systems, test, and program teams - Perform wiring and fabrication tasks such as cable assembly, connector installation, crimping, soldering, continuity checks, cable routing, rack assembly, panel modification, bracket installation, and minor mechanical rework using approved procedures - Read, apply, and update wiring diagrams, electrical schematics, rack elevations, mechanical and installation drawings, cable and port maps, bills of material, work instructions, and interface-control documentation - Support software development by provisioning and restoring development and test environments, imaging computers, installing approved software, managing configurations, collecting logs, and assisting with automated lab workflows - Diagnose and resolve lab issues across power, wiring, compute, networking, software, instrumentation, and mechanical interfaces using appropriate test equipment, logs, drawings, and structured troubleshooting methods - Manage procurement coordination, incoming inspection, shipping and receiving, vendor repair activity, consumables, tool control, calibration, equipment staging, and capacity planning for lab growth and program execution - Establish, maintain, and enforce lab standards for safety, access, cybersecurity, export control, electrostatic-discharge protection, foreign-object-debris prevention, cleanliness, labeling, and configuration management - Own and maintain lab operating procedures, build records, maintenance logs, configuration baselines, status dashboards, issue trackers, and work instructions that provide traceability and support knowledge sharing - Support customer integration events, demonstrations, operational exercises, and evaluations by preparing representative lab environments, reproducing field issues, and incorporating approved updates into HIL configurations and test infrastructure ## Required Qualifications - Typically requires 5+ years of hands-on experience supporting engineering laboratories, integration and test facilities, avionics, mission systems, electronics, IT infrastructure, industrial equipment, or comparable technical operations. - Hands-on experience operating or supporting engineering laboratories, integration facilities, test environments, maintenance operations, or mission systems in the defense, aerospace, aviation, robotics, manufacturing, or another mission-critical industry - Demonstrated experience assembling, installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting electro-mechanical equipment, test infrastructure, computing systems, electronics, or avionics hardware - Experience maintaining accountable assets, serialized hardware, inventory, tools, calibration, spares, shipping and receiving, maintenance history, or configuration records - Strong planning and organizational skills with demonstrated ability to own shared lab operations and coordinate schedules, equipment availability, maintenance activities, priorities, and dependencies across multiple teams or programs - Ability to read and work from wiring diagrams, electrical schematics, mechanical and installation drawings, rack layouts, bills of material, work instructions, and technical manuals - Competence with wiring, cable and connector work, fabrication, hand tools, digital multimeters, continuity testing, rack integration, and safe electro-mechanical troubleshooting - Comfort working with Windows- and Linux-based computers, installing and configuring software, collecting logs, documenting technical work, and communicating clearly with software and hardware engineers - Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance ## Preferred Qualifications - A degree in engineering technology; an associate degree in electronics technology, information technology, avionics, or a related technical discipline; equivalent military or vocational training; or relevant demonstrated experience - Experience supporting HIL, SIL, VIL, avionics, flight-system, robotics, or systems-integration laboratories - Familiarity with Python, Bash, PowerShell, or another scripting language for asset records, health checks, configuration, data collection, reporting, or routine lab workflows - Experience supporting software-development or continuous-integration teams, including environment provisioning, software deployment, source control, build systems, automated testing, or test orchestration - Experience with aircraft systems, autonomy software, embedded computing, real-time simulation, sensors, communications equipment, or uncrewed vehicle integration - Familiarity with Ethernet networking, managed switches, IP addressing, serial communications, CAN, time synchronization, remote access, and basic network troubleshooting - Experience with CAD viewers or tools used to review or update electrical drawings, mechanical drawings, rack layouts, cable drawings, or lab floor plans ## Skills ### Required - electro-mechanical equipment - test infrastructure - computing systems - electronics - avionics hardware - wiring diagrams - electrical schematics - mechanical drawings - rack layouts - bills of material - work instructions - technical manuals - Windows - Linux - software installation - configuration management ### Nice to have - Python - Bash - PowerShell - scripting languages - HIL - SIL - VIL - avionics - flight-system - robotics - systems-integration laboratories - autonomy software - embedded computing - real-time simulation - sensors - communications equipment - uncrewed vehicle integration - Ethernet networking - managed switches - IP addressing - serial communications - CAN - time synchronization - remote access - basic network troubleshooting - CAD viewers --- Source: [Apply at jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/25f8b230-d836-4fe7-88fa-441d0579f2f5?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)