# Director, Electrical Engineering

**Company:** [Shield AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/shield-ai)
**Location:** Dallas, TX
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $220k – $340k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** electrical engineering, avionics, Root Cause Analysis, failure analysis, fault tree analysis, fmea, fmeca, 8d, reliability engineering, reliability growth modeling, mtbf, mtbur, accelerated life testing, uav/uas design, electronic design
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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