Shield AI
Senior Liaison Engineer, Sustaining (R6024)
Dallas, Texas · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience for Senior Engineer, or 8+ years for Staff Engineer
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or a related field.
About the job
Serves as the engineering authority for resolving hardware nonconformances and sustaining issues across V-BAT production, testing, and fielded aircraft, including composite repairs and corrective actions.
What you'll do
- Lead hardware issue investigations and approve NCR/MRB dispositions, repair instructions, and acceptance criteria.
- Coordinate root-cause and corrective-action work across engineering, production, quality, suppliers, and field operations.
- Drive necessary updates to designs, drawings, specifications, processes, inspections, and BOMs.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or a related field.
- Experience reviewing and dispositioning NCRs within an MRB process in aerospace, defense or another regulated industry.
- Experience supporting production, sustaining engineering, fielded products or complex hardware troubleshooting, and writing production-hardware rework or repair instructions.
- Track record of verified corrective action, including formal RCCA; proficiency with 3D CAD, engineering drawings, GD&T and mechanical design for manufacturing.
Nice to have
- Aircraft or UAS liaison/MRB experience; experience classifying or documenting structural repairs.
- Working knowledge of composite materials and inspection methods; experience with AS9100, Siemens NX or Teamcenter.
Tools
3D CAD, GD&T, Siemens NX, Teamcenter, IPC/WHMA-A-620, IPC-A-610
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