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 develops AI-powered autonomy software and aircraft systems that protect service members and civilians by enabling intelligent operations in contested environments. Shield AI is seeking a Manager, Mechanical Engineering to lead the mechanical hardware-test team supporting X-BAT. The team develops and sustains the test stands, fixtures, tooling, support equipment, and facility interfaces used to validate mission-critical aircraft hardware across development, integration, qualification, and production. You will be accountable for the team's people, technical direction, operating model, and delivery across a portfolio of test-equipment projects. You will translate program and verification priorities into a clear roadmap, build the capacity needed to execute it, and establish the engineering standards that make test systems safe, repeatable, maintainable, and ready for sustained use. The idóneo candidate combines strong mechanical and test-equipment judgment with demonstrated people leadership. You know how to grow engineers, manage competing priorities, make sound technical tradeoffs, and scale a hardware capability from rapid prototype work into disciplined, configuration-controlled operations. Lead, coach, and grow a team of mechanical engineers responsible for X-BAT hardware-test equipment; set clear expectations and provide regular feedback, career development, performance management, hiring, and onboarding.



Own the mechanical hardware-test roadmap and delivery portfolio across development, subsystem integration, qualification, and production-test needs. Manage team capacity and workload across concurrent test campaigns; identify resource gaps and communicate staffing, schedule, budget, and technical tradeoffs with transparency. Set the quality bar for requirements, concepts, design reviews, analysis, GD&T;, tolerance analysis, DFM/DFA, drawing and model release, configuration control, validation, acceptance, and sustaining documentation. Ensure test stands and fixtures are safe, repeatable, maintainable, serviceable, and efficient for operators while meeting structural, thermal, durability, environmental, and facility-interface requirements. Serve as the senior mechanical escalation point for test-equipment architecture, load paths, materials, mechanisms, mounting, cooling, plumbing, instrumentation accommodation, guarding, and other hazards or interfaces. Drive standardization and reuse across test assets, including common design practices, modular hardware, documentation, checkout methods, and maintenance strategies. Partner with test, electrical, avionics, systems, manufacturing, quality, facilities, supply chain, technicians, and program leadership to resolve interfaces and deliver integrated test capability when it is needed. Oversee fabrication, procurement, assembly, commissioning,



and sustainment strategies with internal shops and external suppliers; Lead high-impact root-cause investigations and corrective actions involving test equipment or units under test, ensuring lessons learned improve future designs and team practices. S. in Mechanical Engineering or a related STEM discipline. 8+ years of relevant experience developing complex mechanical hardware, test equipment, tooling, fixtures, or ground-support equipment in aerospace, defense, robotics, automotive, industrial systems, or another high-consequence environment. 2+ years of direct people-management experience, including goal setting, work allocation, coaching, performance management, hiring, and developing engineers. Demonstrated success leading a team or function through the design, release, fabrication, assembly, checkout, deployment, and sustainment of multiple complex hardware systems. Strong mechanical engineering fundamentals, including statics and dynamics, load paths, strength and stiffness, fatigue and durability, materials and finishes, fastener design, tolerancing, GD&T;, and machine or fixture safety. Experience establishing engineering standards and leading effective requirements, architecture, and design reviews. Proficiency with an industry-standard CAD and product-lifecycle or release workflow such as NX, SolidWorks, CATIA, Teamcenter, or an equivalent toolset. Experience managing a multi-project technical roadmap, balancing resources and priorities, and communicating risk and tradeoffs to program and engineering leadership. Hands-on judgment developed in lab, prototype, manufacturing, or production environments, including collaboration with technicians, machinists, suppliers, and test operators. Excellent w

📌 Manager, Mechanical Engineering (España)
🏢 shieldai
📍 España