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Shield AIShield AISan Diego, CA

Electrical Engineer I (SD)

Entry-level Electrical Engineer owning full-lifecycle avionics circuit design, integration, testing, and flight support for X-BAT aircraft, with direct senior mentorship. Requires EE degree, strong fundamentals, team experience, and EDA tool proficiency.

81k – 122k/yr
On-siteEntry levelHardware Engineering

About the role

What you'll do

  • Own a design that directly impacts the X-BAT system and major flight test milestones, with a senior engineer assigned as a direct mentor.
  • Full lifecycle ownership: concept, design, verification, integration, flight test, and manufacturing.
  • Design efforts include circuit design for embedded systems using analog, digital, power conversion, high-speed, FPGA, MCU, EMI/EMC, etc.
  • Perform system integration and verification.
  • Conduct environmental test, qualification, and automation.
  • Debug, root cause, and drive resolution of issues.
  • Design systems for high-reliability, radiation tolerance, aggressive temperature changes, and high magnitude vibration.

Required qualifications

  • Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
  • Strong technical fundamentals.
  • Have been part of an engineering team/club.
  • Experience with electrical design software such as Altium, KiCAD, etc.
  • Ability to obtain a S//SAR level security clearance desired.

Skills

circuit designanalog circuitsdigital circuitspower conversionhigh-speed designfpgamcuemi/emcaltiumkicadsystem integrationenvironmental testingDebugginghigh-reliability design

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