Shield AI
Reliability and Maintainability Engineer (R5301)
Dallas, Texas · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years; listed fields include 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, repeat defects, and complex technical issues using hardware, logs, test results, maintenance records, and operational data.
- Drive root-cause and corrective-action work from containment through verification and closure, coordinating across engineering, quality, manufacturing, and operations.
- Identify reliability and maintainability 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 experience in reliability, maintainability, failure analysis, systems or quality engineering, aviation sustainment, product support, manufacturing engineering, or complex hardware sustainment.
- Experience investigating field failures and driving Root Cause and Corrective Action investigations 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.
- Experience with FRACAS, reliability growth, fleet reliability tracking, MTBF/MTBUR analysis, Weibull analysis, reliability block diagrams, maintainability analysis, or product health dashboards.
Tools
5 Whys, fault tree analysis, fishbone diagrams, 8D, FMEA/FMECA, FRACAS, MTBF/MTBUR, Weibull analysis
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