# Senior Electronics Lab Technician

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Dallas
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $28 - $42 an hour
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/9b2b2e07-f23f-49c8-882d-a1adffe53bb1
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## Description

Shield AI is expanding the Avionics Engineering team to support development of the next-generation X-BAT aircraft. We are building a flight-critical, custom avionics system supporting compute, AI, power, communications, telemetry, and mission systems.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a structured lab setting , assembling, soldering, wiring, organizing, troubleshooting, and ensuring engineers have everything they need to move quickly. You will work side-by-side with electrical, mechanical, and software engineers to build, support, and maintain prototype avionics hardware in a fast-paced R&D environment.

### Responsibilities:

- Support lab setup, layout, organization, and ongoing infrastructure improvements

- Manage equipment procurement, part ordering, and inventory for the avionics lab

- Maintain calibration, traceability, and documentation for lab equipment

- Assemble, modify, and deploy prototype PCBAs and avionics modules

- Perform moderate PCB rework and fine-pitch soldering under microscope

- Rework and modify boards to support engineering iteration

- Build and modify wire harnesses and cable assemblies as needed

- Support environmental testing (temperature, vibration, altitude, humidity) including instrumentation and setup

- Operate oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, logic analyzers, and environmental chambers

- Maintain detailed documentation of builds, lab procedures, and hardware modifications

- Assist engineers in debugging and validating hardware in a structured, repeatable manner

- Help establish and maintain lab best practices, organization standards, and safe operating procedures

### Qualifications:

- 2+ years of hands-on experience in an electrical hardware development or R&D lab

- Strong ability to read and interpret electrical schematics and layouts

- Experience operating lab equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies, environmental chambers, etc.)

- Experience with PCB rework and component-level soldering

- Comfortable disassembling and reassembling electronic assemblies

- Experience working within a PLM system (Arena, Agile, or equivalent)

- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

- Ability to work independently and support multiple engineers simultaneously

### Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience building and modifying wire harnesses and cable assemblies

- Familiarity with PCB layout tools such as Altium (or similar)

- Experience maintaining lab inventory and calibration systems

- Familiarity with avionics, UAVs, or aerospace hardware

- Comfort using mechanical shop tools and basic fabrication equipment

- Experience supporting prototype manufacturing environments

$28 - $42 an hour

## Skills

### Required
- electrical hardware development
- R&D lab
- lab equipment
- PCB rework
- component-level soldering
- PLM system
- organizational skills
- attention to detail

### Nice to have
- wire harnesses
- cable assemblies
- PCB layout tools
- lab inventory
- calibration systems
- avionics
- UAVs
- aerospace hardware
- mechanical shop tools
- fabrication equipment