Engineering Specialist/Sr. Technician, Electrical Engineering (R4691)
Shield AI · Boston, MA · X-BAT Division
senior
operations
Facility Technician
ic
3+ yrs
· Posted Mar 10, 2026
$36 – $54
USD per-hour-wage
About this role
Shield AI is hiring a senior-level Facility Technician in the operations function based in Boston, MA. The role typically asks for 3+ years of relevant experience. Compensation is listed at $36–$54 per-hour-wage.
- Role
- Facility Technician
- Function
- operations
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Boston, MA
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Department
- X-BAT Division
- Posted
- Mar 10, 2026
AI Summary
Avionics Technician supporting X-BAT aircraft development across design, verification, procurement, manufacturing, and test. Performs benchtop electrical testing, designs test fixtures and wire harnesses, reworks circuit boards, and interprets schematics. Requires 3+ years electrical engineering lab experience and demonstrated ownership of hardware projects.
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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. Our team is designing a flight critical, custom avionics system to support communications, compute, AI, power, telemetry, and all other needed aircraft systems.
An Avionics Technician/Specialist supports the entire Avionics team and other cross-functional teams. It is an essential role spanning design, verification, procurement, manufacturing, and test. You will work specifically with the Electrical Engineering team as they design and verify all X-BAT electrical systems and circuit boards.
Required qualifications:
- 3+ years working in an electrical engineering lab or equivalent
- Experience performing benchtop testing with basic EE equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope, electronic load, thermal chamber, etc.)
- Can design basic test fixtures
- May be able to design basic wire harnesses or simple circuit boards
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