Senior Component Engineer, Electrical Engineering
Shield AI
Other Engineering
Dallas County, TX, USA
Posted on Jun 20, 2025
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense technology company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent, autonomous systems. Its products include Hivemind Enterprise—EdgeOS, Pilot, Commander, and Forge—as well as V-BAT and Sentient Vision Systems (wide-area motion imaging software). With offices in San Diego, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kyiv (Ukraine), and Melbourne (Australia), Shield AI’s technology actively supports U.S. and allied operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X and Instagram.
What you'll do:
- Define and own the standards and process for new part requests and lifetime management of the ECAD library
- Work closely with the Electrical Engineering team to select new parts and evaluate their suitability to meet reliability, environmental, and performance requirements
- Maintain the accuracy and uniformity of the ECAD component library
- Address supply chain shortages and obsolescence problems with deviations and ECOs
- Select and define preferred vendors and part families in partnership with Supply Chain
- Engage with manufacturing and vendors as needed
- Ensure NDAA 848 compliance
- Engage with Quality Engineering in root cause investigations
Required qualifications:
- You have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Physics, or other engineering discipline
- You have 2+ years of relevant experience
- Strong technical fundamentals with component physics, reading schematics, and understanding technical datasheets
- Experience with a PLM system such as Arena or Teamcenter
- Experience with an ECAD system such as Altium
- You have a demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others
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Full-time regular employee offer package:
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary employee offer package:
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.
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