# Senior Staff Electrical Engineer (R5988)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 210,000-320,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a highly motivated Senior Staff Electrical Engineer to support the design, development, integration, and fielding of a next-generation autonomous aircraft system.

The ideal candidate is comfortable solving complex problems, taking ownership, working within an accelerated aircraft development environment, and is motivated by getting meaningful capability into the hands of operators quickly.

## Responsibilities

- Drive architecture, sub-system, and circuit design for the next-generation aircraft and its support equipment, including complex system architectures utilizing custom circuitry (FPGAs, power management, analog, digital, servos, microcontrollers, sensors, radios, etc.)

- Support the design and integration of complex embedded systems and sensors that enable aircraft autonomy and AI

- Help define technical product requirements and features

- Lead and mentor teammates working on the same project

- Own circuit part selection, schematic capture, simulation, analysis, verification, debugging, and release to production

- Coordinate with cross-functional teams (mechanical, embedded, software, manufacturing, supply chain, etc.)

- Manage project timelines and deliverables

- Conduct and attend cross-functional design reviews

- Work closely with Firmware to integrate applicable logic designs into the build/release cycle

- Provide feedback to other teams where applicable

- Help develop automated test solutions

- Proactively identify opportunities for improvement within hardware development projects, demonstrating initiative to propose and implement innovative solutions that enhance efficiency, quality, and overall project success and aircraft reliability

## Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering; or equivalent work experience

- 8+ years of industry experience as an Electrical Engineer

- Strong technical fundamentals

- Contributed to and led multiple product design cycles involving EE, ME, and SW engineering

- Demonstrated track record of extreme ownership, working hard, and delivering outstanding outcomes

- A track record of successfully shipping products, showcasing the ability to navigate through development cycles, overcome obstacles, and deliver high-quality solutions to meet project deadlines and exceed expectations in a fast-paced environment

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- FPGA
- power management
- analog
- digital
- servos
- microcontrollers
- sensors
- radios

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