# Power Electronics - Staff Electrical Engineer

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Dallas, Texas / Boston, MA / San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,130 - $225,196 a year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/be0a4dc7-d2ca-428b-91ef-516012965b5f
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_cf0f0a5c-064

## Description

Shield AI is redefining autonomous aviation with cutting-edge AI and GPS/RF-denied navigation technologies. We're building a next-generation aircraft XBAT like no other,one that will push the boundaries of innovation and performance.

We're looking for a Staff Power Engineer to provide technical leadership in the design, development, and delivery of high-performance power systems across our aircraft programs. This is a high-ownership role where you will define architectures, mentor junior engineers, and ensure that our power electronics meet the rigorous demands of autonomous aviation.

Key responsibilities include:

* Owning flight critical power sub-system design for X-BAT
* Designing power electronics for high voltage and low voltage systems, including inverters, DC-DC converters, battery management, and other power electronics
* Hardening designs for harsh environments such as shock/vibe, high reliability, radiation, and high-altitude
* Working on power sub-systems and designs for both low power (10 kW)
* Full-cycle hardware development, including concept, modeling, worst case analysis, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, design reiteration for improving design maturity, testing and validation
* PCB ownership, driving PCB layout and design with ECAD engineers, optimizing for power density, EMI, thermal, and manufacturability
* Designing for Safety, Manufacturability and Reliability, keeping in mind best practices for safety, manufacturing and reliability
* Board Bring Up and Testing, executing board bring up, verification, validation and HALT testing to meet rigorous aerospace reliability standards
* Cross-functional collaboration, working closely with Mechanical, CAD, Embedded, Software, Supply Chain, Test Automation, Production and various aircraft teams throughout the product lifecycle
* Design review leadership, leading and contributing to cross-functional reviews ensuring robust, high-integrity engineering decisions. Mentoring junior engineers that support your design
* Program execution, managing project timelines, deliverables, and technical milestones to drive on-time, high-quality outcomes

## Skills

### Required
- circuit design
- schematic capture
- component selection
- circuit testing
- debugging
- Altium