Senior Electrical Engineer
Shield AI · Dallas, TX · X-BAT Division
senior
software engineering
Hardware Engineer
ic
· Posted Dec 17, 2025
$115,527 – $173,291
USD per-year-salary
Skills
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 careersFounded 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.
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