Engineer, Integration

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and 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. 
Candidates for this role will deploy, integrate, maintain, and support Shield AI's advanced vision and detection systems in laboratory, production, customer, and field environments. These systems combine imaging sensors, onboard processing, and intelligent detection capabilities in ruggedized camera pods and gimbals for crewed and uncrewed fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. We are looking for a hands-on integration engineer who can bridge software, electrical, and mechanical disciplines; manage hardware and software configurations with precision; troubleshoot effectively; and represent Shield AI with customers and mission partners. 

What You'll Do:

• Install, integrate, configure, and support deployment of vision systems including: camera pods, imaging sensors, onboard processing hardware, and associated electronic assemblies on crewed and uncrewed aircraft and supporting test assets
• Load, configure, update, and validate software releases in accordance with release instructions and configuration-control processes
• Perform system bring-up, functional checkout, acceptance testing, and post-installation verification of sensor, compute, power, network, and aircraft interfaces
• Maintain accurate hardware and software configuration records, including serial numbers, part numbers, software versions, installation status, service history, spares, and returned-material activity
• Read and apply mechanical drawings, installation drawings, wiring diagrams, schematics, pinouts, interface-control documents, work instructions, and technical manuals
• Perform basic wiring and electro-mechanical work, including connector inspection, continuity checks, pin verification, cable routing, termination, and minor harness rework when authorized by approved procedures
• Diagnose and resolve software, electrical, network, sensor, and mechanical integration issues using logs, built-in diagnostics, test equipment, drawings, and controlled troubleshooting methods