Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI's technology actively supports operations worldwide. Shield AI is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer to define and lead the electrical test-equipment strategy that enables X-BAT hardware to move from rapid development through qualification, integration, and sustained operation. The Hardware Test Engineering team builds the multidisciplinary systems used to characterize, stress, verify, and troubleshoot mission-critical aircraft components and subsystems. You will be the technical authority for a portfolio of electrical test capabilities rather than a single stand or project. You will establish common architectures, engineering standards, safety practices, and lifecycle expectations; and lead the most ambiguous or consequential test-equipment efforts from concept through deployment. Create a coherent test-equipment architecture and roadmap that closes the program's highest-risk verification gaps and supports development, qualification, and recurring test needs. Standardize reusable electrical, software, data, safety, calibration, and documentation patterns that shorten delivery time without weakening rigor. Raise the quality of aircraft requirements and interfaces by making testability, observability, fault isolation, and verification strategy explicit early in design. Develop senior technical talent and create durable practices that allow the organization to deliver more capability through the team rather than through individual heroics. Own the technical strategy, architecture,



and roadmap for electrical test equipment supporting X-BAT avionics, power, communications, actuation, and other aircraft subsystems. Define common architectures for racks, stands, interface units, power and fault insertion, instrumentation, data acquisition, timing, automation, diagnostics, and operator interfaces. Lead the most complex or novel test-equipment programs through requirements, trade studies, architecture, detailed design, build, integration, acceptance, deployment, and sustainment. Set and uphold engineering standards for schematics, PCB and harness design, calibration, documentation, and release readiness. Establish system-safety expectations for energized test equipment, including hazard analysis, safe-state design, interlocks, isolation, emergency stops, access control, and verification of protective functions. Partner with systems and design engineering to define testable requirements, electrical interfaces, built-in observability, fault isolation, and verification approaches before aircraft designs are released. Develop strategies for equipment reliability, availability, maintainability, calibration, obsolescence, spares, vendor support, and recovery from failures during critical test campaigns. Lead cross-functional root-cause investigations that span test equipment, units under test, software, facilities, manufacturing,



and supplier processes; ensure corrective actions improve both products and test capability. Make informed build-versus-buy decisions and provide technical direction to vendors, integrators, technicians, and partner teams delivering portions of the test ecosystem. Define and use meaningful operating metrics such as first-pass acceptance, schedule predictability, equipment uptime, test repeatability, recurring anomalies, action closure, and reuse of proven designs. Mentor senior and developing engineers, delegate architecture and project ownership effectively, and improve the quality of technical reasoning and review across the organization. S. in Electrical Engineering or a related STEM discipline, or equivalent practical experience. 8+ years of relevant industry experience developing complex electrical hardware, automated test equipment, or multidisciplinary verification systems. A record of leading multiple hardware development cycles and delivering equipment or products from ambiguous requirements through release, deployment, and sustained use. Deep expertise in several relevant domains, such as power electronics, analog and digital design, RF and communications, instrumentation, data acquisition, control systems, signal integrity, grounding, or system safety. Demonstrated ability to architect systems that span custom electronics, commercial instruments, harnessing, embedded control, automation software, mechanical equipment, and facility interfaces. Strong command of requirements decomposition, interface control, verification planning, design reviews, configuration management, acceptance testing, and technical documentation. Experience establishing technical standards or reusable platforms and influencing teams beyond direct pro

📌 Staff Electrical Engineer, Hardware Test (España)
🏢 shieldai
📍 España