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Shield AIShield AIDallas, TX

Director, Electrical Engineering

Leads multidisciplinary electrical engineering, avionics analysis, and build/test teams responsible for the reliability and manufacturability of an unmanned aircraft platform. Requires 10+ years of experience, electrical design expertise, and a demonstrated record of building high-performing technical organizations.

220k – 340k/yr
On-site10+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a multidisciplinary organization of electrical design engineers, root cause analysis engineers, and avionics build/test technicians.
  • Mentor and develop team members while building career paths and technical depth across electrical design, root cause analysis, and avionics build/test.
  • Establish team priorities, allocate resources, and drive execution while fostering technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
  • Contribute to design development and reviews, hands-on root cause analysis, and the definition and validation of corrective actions.
  • Lead cross-functional failure investigations and establish and verify corrective and preventive actions.
  • Build tooling and infrastructure to accelerate debugging, testing, and issue resolution.
  • Coordinate with Supply Chain, Reliability, Manufacturing, Quality, and Fleet Support to improve system reliability and availability.
  • Establish standards, review cadences, and metrics such as reliability growth, escape rates, and time-to-resolution.

Requirements

  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering or an equivalent technical field.
  • 10+ years of experience, including demonstrated success leading and growing teams of electrical engineers.
  • Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing technical teams.
  • Experience working cross-functionally across design, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and fleet or field support.
  • Proven ability to plan and execute complex electronic and electrical designs in a high-consequence industry such as defense, aerospace, automotive, or medical devices.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership development environment with rapidly evolving priorities.

Nice-to-haves

  • M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.
  • Experience with structured problem-solving and failure analysis methods, including fault tree analysis, fishbone/Ishikawa diagrams, FMEA/FMECA, and 8D.
  • Ownership of full product development lifecycles from concept through release, production ramp, customer sustainment, and product retirement.
  • Experience in UAV/UAS design or other autonomous or unmanned systems.
  • Familiarity with reliability engineering practices, including reliability growth modeling, MTBF/MTBUR analysis, and accelerated life testing.

Skills

electrical engineeringavionicsRoot Cause Analysisfailure analysisfault tree analysisfmeafmeca8dreliability engineeringreliability growth modelingmtbfmtburaccelerated life testinguav/uas designelectronic design

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