Shield AI
Reliability and Maintainability Engineer (R5301)
$117K–$176K
Dallas, Texas · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 9, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years in reliability engineering, maintainability engineering, failure analysis, systems engineering, quality engineering, aviation sustainment, product support, manufacturing engineering, or complex hardware sustainment.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads technical investigations into V-BAT field failures and drives verified corrective actions and reliability and maintainability improvements.
What you'll do
- Investigate field failures and repeat defects using hardware, logs, test data, maintenance records, and operational context.
- Drive Root Cause and Corrective Action investigations from containment through verification and closure.
- Identify fleet trends and recommend design, process, testing, maintenance, or supplier actions to prevent recurrence.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4+ years of relevant engineering, sustainment, failure-analysis, or product-support experience.
- Demonstrated experience investigating field failures and driving Root Cause and Corrective Action through verification and closure.
- Ability to possess a Secret DoD security clearance as required by customers.
Nice to have
- Experience with unmanned aircraft systems, aviation sustainment, aerospace manufacturing, defense products, robotics, or deployed hardware systems.
- Experience with FRACAS, reliability growth, fleet reliability tracking, MTBF/MTBUR analysis, Weibull analysis, reliability block diagrams, maintainability analysis, or product health dashboards.
Pay
USD 117,000–176,000 per-year-salary; base salary
Tools
5 Whys, fault tree analysis, fishbone diagrams, 8D, FMEA/FMECA, FRACAS, MTBF/MTBUR, Weibull analysis
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