Electrical Engineering Co-op: Avionics & High‑Power Testing

Shieldai; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 30,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Equity

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a motivated Co-op candidate to join our team in building autonomous aircraft. You will work under mentorship with senior engineers to design and test hardware for a flight-critical system, focusing on analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits and high-power electronics.

The program starts in June 2027 and runs for multiple months, with a paid, full-time schedule during the academic year.

Qualifications

• Completed at least the 2nd year of a relevant degree, typically Electrical Engineering.
• Strong technical fundamentals and hands-on hardware experience.
• Experience with electrical design tools such as Altium, KiCAD, and measurement equipment like oscilloscopes.

Responsibilities

• Design a circuit board involving analog, digital, mixed-signal, and high-speed circuits for testing a prototype flight computer.
• Design, simulate, and verify high voltage power electronics (>10kW) DC/DC converters and DC/AC inverters.
• Collaborate with a senior engineer to bring up and validate a new Avionics system.
• Identify bugs and drive changes to fix them.
• Build a test rack to enable fully automated test coverage of a flight-critical subsystem.
• Run a HALT campaign to ensure reliability of new circuit boards.

Skills

Strong technical fundamentals

Team/club engineering experience

Ownership and accountability

Reliability and teamwork

Education

2nd year in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

Altium

KiCAD

Oscilloscope

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a motivated Co-op candidate to join our team in building autonomous aircraft. You will work under mentorship with senior engineers to design and test hardware for a flight-critical system, focusing on analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits and high-power electronics.

The program starts in June 2027 and runs for multiple months, with a paid, full-time schedule during the academic year.