# Electrical Engineer I (SD)

**Company:** [Shield AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/shield-ai)
**Location:** San Diego, CA, Dallas, TX
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $81k – $122k/yr
**Experience:** 0+ years
**Skills:** circuit design, analog circuits, digital circuits, power conversion, high-speed design, fpga, mcu, emi/emc, altium, kicad, system integration, environmental testing, Debugging, high-reliability design
**Posted:** 2025-11-24

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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