Lead, Mechanical Hardware Test - X-BAT Program

Shield; Washington (District of Columbia); Presencial; USD 140.000 - 200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Shield AI is seeking a Manager, Mechanical Engineering to lead the hardware‑test team supporting X‑BAT. You will translate program milestones into executable plans, oversee capacity, and ensure safe, repeatable test stands for mission‑critical aircraft hardware across development and production stages.

You will guide a team of engineers, establish engineering standards, and partner with cross‑functional stakeholders to deliver integrated test capabilities while maintaining high quality and

Formación

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or a related STEM discipline.
• 8+ years of relevant experience developing complex mechanical hardware, test equipment, tooling, fixtures, or ground‑support equipment in aerospace, defense, robotics, automotive, industrial systems, or a high‑consequence environment.
• 2+ years of direct people‑management experience, including goal setting, work allocation, coaching, performance management, hiring, and developing engineers.
• Demonstrated success leading a team through design, release, fabrication, assembly, checkout, deployment, and sustainment of multiple hardware systems.
• Strong mechanical engineering fundamentals: statics and dynamics, load paths, strength and stiffness, fatigue and durability, materials and finishes, fastener design, tolerancing, GD&T, and safety.
• Experience establishing engineering standards and leading effective requirements, architecture, and design reviews.
• Proficiency with CAD and PLM release workflows (NX, SolidWorks, CATIA, Teamcenter).
• Experience managing a multi‑project technical roadmap, communicating risk and tradeoffs to leadership.
• Hands‑on judgment in lab, prototype, manufacturing, or production environments, collaborating with technicians, machinists, suppliers, and test operators.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to align engineering, operations, and program organizations.

Responsabilidades

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of mechanical engineers for X‑BAT hardware‑test equipment.
• Own the mechanical hardware‑test roadmap and delivery portfolio across development, integration, qualification, and production‑test needs.
• Convert program milestones into executable plans with scope, priorities, staffing, schedule, dependencies, and risk‑reduction actions.
• Manage team capacity and workload across concurrent test campaigns; communicate staffing, schedule, budget, and tradeoffs clearly.
• Set the quality bar for requirements, concepts, design reviews, analysis, GD&T, tolerance analysis, DFM/DFA, drawing and model release, configuration control, validation, and sustaining documentation.
• Ensure test stands and fixtures are safe, repeatable, maintainable, serviceable, and efficient while meeting interface requirements.
• Serve as the senior mechanical escalation point for architecture, load paths, materials, mechanisms, and hazards.
• Use operating metrics to track schedule predictability, design closures, first‑pass checkout, equipment uptime, and corrective actions.
• Drive standardization and reuse of test assets, implementing common design practices and maintenance strategies.
• Collaborate with test, electrical, avionics, systems, manufacturing, quality, facilities, supply chain, technicians, and leadership to deliver integrated test capabilities.
• Oversee fabrication, procurement, assembly, commissioning, and sustainment strategies with internal shops and external suppliers; make make‑vs‑buy and schedule‑risk decisions.
• Lead root‑cause investigations and corrective actions to improve future designs and practices.
• Build a culture of technical rigor, urgency, ownership, candid communication, and hands‑on execution.

Educación

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Descripción del empleo

Shield AI is seeking a Manager, Mechanical Engineering to lead the hardware‑test team supporting X‑BAT. You will translate program milestones into executable plans, oversee capacity, and ensure safe, repeatable test stands for mission‑critical aircraft hardware across development and production stages.

You will guide a team of engineers, establish engineering standards, and partner with cross‑functional stakeholders to deliver integrated test capabilities while maintaining high quality and