Battery Test Engineer for Avionics Systems

Shield; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Equity

Job summary

Shield AI is growing its Avionics Engineering group to support the X‑BAT aircraft. The team designs a flight‑critical, custom avionics system for communications, compute, AI, power and telemetry across flight hardware.

We seek an early‑career Test Engineer to set up and analyze battery energy storage tests, partnering with Power Systems and other engineering teams throughout design and qualification processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in chemical, electrical, mechanical engineering or related technical discipline.
• Hands-on experience with batteries, powertrain systems, or comparable electrochemical equipment.
• Experience setting up and executing hardware tests using instrumentation, sensors and data-acquisition equipment.
• Experience troubleshooting systems involving electrical and mechanical components.
• Familiarity with benchtop electrical equipment (multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads).
• Ability to read electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, mechanical drawings and test procedures.
• Understanding of laboratory safety practices for high‑voltage/high‑power equipment.

Responsibilities

• Setup and operate battery energy storage systems for testing.
• Configure thermal chambers, battery cyclers, instrumentation, sensors, fixtures, harnesses and data-acquisition equipment.
• Execute test campaigns for electrochemical subsystems, verifying voltage rails, logic levels, performance, thermal behavior and overall functionality.
• Perform testing, debugging and system-level troubleshooting.
• Collect and evaluate test data, identify abnormal behavior and communicate findings.
• Support external test lab qualification testing, including failure modes, temperature, vibration, humidity and altitude.
• Install, verify, and deploy DC-sources, power converters, test fixtures and harnesses.
• Assist with the design and buildout of the battery test labs.

Skills

Battery testing

Electrical testing

Data acquisition

Schematic reading

Troubleshooting systems

Lab safety

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/CE/Mechanical

Tools

Multimeters

Oscilloscopes

Power supplies

Electronic loads

Thermal chambers

Job description

Shield AI is growing its Avionics Engineering group to support the X‑BAT aircraft. The team designs a flight‑critical, custom avionics system for communications, compute, AI, power and telemetry across flight hardware.

We seek an early‑career Test Engineer to set up and analyze battery energy storage tests, partnering with Power Systems and other engineering teams throughout design and qualification processes.