# Staff Engineer, Propulsion - Mechanical Design (R5389)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Dallas, Texas
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 140,000-210,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Defense

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Mechanical Design & Analysis Engineer to join the V-BAT propulsion engineering team. The successful candidate will own mechanical design from concept through production release and perform mechanical analysis to validate designs.

Responsibilities:

- Design propulsion system components and subsystems for V-BAT

- Perform mechanical analysis to guide and validate designs

- Own mechanical design trades between mass, stiffness, strength, cost, manufacturability, serviceability, and reliability

- Create and maintain high-quality CAD models and drawing packages

- Route and retain wire harnesses, fuel lines, oil lines, cooling lines, and other propulsion-adjacent tubing or fluid systems

- Own engineering change orders and support configuration management

- Coordinate design releases with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, flight test, program management, and other engineering teams

- Own and execute verification and validation test campaigns

- Analyze test data from ground and flight testing

- Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure design integration

- Investigate failures and drive corrective actions

Required qualifications:

- B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering

- 5+ years of professional mechanical design experience

- Strong proficiency with 3D CAD modeling and detailed mechanical design

- Experience developing production-ready engineering drawings and documentation

- Understanding of GD&T and manufacturing processes

- Experience owning components through the full product lifecycle

- Strong cross-functional communication and project coordination skills

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience in aerospace, aviation, defense, motorsports, or other high-performance mechanical systems

- Proficiency with Siemens NX

- Experience designing engine, propulsion, fuel, lubrication, thermal management, or rotating machinery systems

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- 3D CAD modeling
- GD&T
- manufacturing processes

### Nice to have
- Siemens NX
- engine design
- propulsion systems
- fuel systems
- thermal management

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