Shield AI
Staff Engineer, Reliability Test (R5532)
Seattle, Washington · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years required; 5+ years preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or related field.
About the job
Plans and leads environmental testing of electronic flight hardware for the X-BAT aircraft, from test design and execution through failure investigation and qualification reporting.
What you'll do
- Develop environmental test plans, procedures, fixtures, instrumentation requirements, and pass/fail criteria; manage concurrent test campaigns.
- Provide real-time engineering oversight during tests and lead investigations of failures and anomalies.
- Analyze test results and write reports supporting hardware disposition, qualification, and acceptance decisions.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or a related field.
- 2+ years planning and conducting environmental tests, including temperature cycling, vibration, shock, HALT, and HASS.
- Experience writing hardware qualification or acceptance test plans, procedures, and reports.
- Working knowledge of relevant industry standards, electronics failure mechanisms, CAD modeling, and instrumentation/data acquisition.
Nice to have
- 5+ years in reliability or environmental test engineering.
- Familiarity with reliability concepts, FEA software, Python, or establishing environmental test capability.
Tools
MIL-STD-810, RTCA DO-160, IPC, JEDEC, ASTM, ANSYS SpaceClaim, NX, Solidworks
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