senior software engineering Hardware Engineer ic · Posted Dec 17, 2025
$115,527 – $173,291
USD per-year-salary

About this role

Shield AI is hiring a senior-level Hardware Engineer in the software engineering function based in Dallas, TX. The posting calls out experience with System Design. Compensation is listed at $115,527–$173,291 per-year-salary.

Role
Hardware Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Dallas, TX
Department
X-BAT Division
Posted
Dec 17, 2025

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Job description

from Shield AI careers
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube

Job Description:
We are growing the Avionics Engineering team to support development of the X-BAT aircraft and the launch/recovery vehicle. Our team is designing a flight critical, custom avionics system to support communications, compute, AI, power, telemetry, and all other needed aircraft systems.
 
A Senior Electrical Engineer will be given ownership over part of the flight critical system design and work with all cross-functional teams to execute.

What you'll do:

  • Circuit and sub-system design for X-BAT and its support equipment. This includes cradle to grave ownership of architecture, design, analysis, schematic capture, layout, verification, qualification, integration, and manufacturing
  • Work with mixed signal systems that include high-speed digital, FPGA, compute, analog, power regulation, EMI/EMC, RF, etc.
  • Execute test and qualification campaigns. Including environmental test for vibration, altitude, radiation, thermal, humidity, etc.
  • This is an excerpt. Read the full job description on Shield AI careers →
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