# Staff Engineer, M&P (R6072)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 160,000-240,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Materials & Processes Engineer to support the development and production of its next-generation autonomous aircraft.

As a key contributor on the Mechanical Engineering team, you will develop, qualify, and implement materials and manufacturing processes for flight-critical hardware from concept through production. You'll work cross-functionally to ensure material performance, process control, manufacturability, and compliance across one of the most advanced autonomous aircraft platforms being built today.

This role is ideal for an aerospace materials engineer who thrives in hands-on development environments and is eager to take technical ownership of complex materials and process challenges.

## Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain material specification database

- Develop and maintain manufacturing process specifications

- Provide guidance for fatigue and corrosion prevention

- Support environmental qualification testing

- Design and implement test plans in support of material, component, and process qualification

- Develop and maintain QA inspection process specifications

- Work with suppliers to ensure proper implementation of process specifications

- Assist with dispositioning of nonconformances

- Work with multifunctional teams for selection of materials and manufacturing processes

## Required qualifications:

- Working knowledge of relevant industry standards including those pertaining to coupon and element level testing and material qualification

- Working knowledge of manufacturing processes (including composite layups, secondary bonding, heat treatment, welding, etc)

- Knowledge of material properties, methods for characterization, and failure mechanisms

- Experience with test design, test execution, and the derivation of material specifications from test results

- Experience with composite materials including prepreg systems and secondary bonding

- Works well in a collaborative setting

- Experience developing process specifications

- Experience working with multifunctional teams in a collaborative setting

## Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with fatigue testing

- Experience with DADT testing

- Experience with non-destructive inspection

## Additional Information:

- Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

- Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

- Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location.

## Skills

### Required
- material specification database
- manufacturing process specifications
- fatigue and corrosion prevention
- environmental qualification testing
- test design
- test execution
- material specifications
- composite materials
- process specifications
- collaborative setting

### Nice to have
- fatigue testing
- DADT testing
- non-destructive inspection

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