Lead, Electrical Engineering (R5116)

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. 

Job Description: Help build the technology behind the next generation of autonomous aircraft. As a Lead, Electrical Engineer, you will serve as a player-coach: leading the architecture, design, integration, and delivery of advanced electrical systems while directly managing and developing a small team of electrical engineers.You will remain deeply hands-on technically while setting direction for your team, driving execution across disciplines, and building the leadership experience needed to grow into broader engineering management responsibilities, including eventually leading full avionics organizations. Growth Opportunity This role is intended for an experienced technical leader who wants to expand their impact through both hands-on engineering leadership and people management. Successful performance can lead to broader responsibility for multiple teams, larger avionics portfolio.

What you'll do: - Lead the architecture, design, integration, and production release of electrical systems and subsystems for autonomous aircraft and support equipment.

- Own technical decisions across complex architectures involving FPGAs, power management, analog and digital circuitry, servos, microcontrollers, sensors, radios, and embedded systems.

- Remain hands-on with part selection, schematic capture, simulation, analysis, verification, debugging, design reviews, and production support.

- Lead and develop a team of electrical engineers through technical mentorship, coaching, performance feedback, and effective delegation.

- Establish technical direction, priorities, and development plans for your team in alignment with program and aircraft objectives.

- Partner closely with firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing, supply chain, test, and systems engineering teams to deliver integrated products.

- Support the design and integration of embedded systems and sensors that enable aircraft autonomy and AI capabilities.

- Define technical requirements, product features, interfaces, and verification strategies.

- Own project execution for your team, including schedules, risks, dependencies, deliverables, and cross-functional communication.

- Lead and participate in architecture, design, integration, and production readiness reviews.

- Help develop automated test solutions and improve hardware development, verification, and production processes.