MRB Engineer: Nonconforming Hardware & Repair

Shieldai; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Materials Review Board Engineer to evaluate nonconforming hardware for fielded unmanned aircraft systems and related equipment. This role develops dispositions, repair instructions, and supporting documentation within established MRB processes.

The engineer partners with responsible engineers, design and manufacturing teams, Quality, Supply Chain, Fleet Support, and Sustainment to ensure safe, traceable dispositions and to advance repair documentation and recurring-issue

Qualifications

• Experience in MRB, quality engineering, or aerospace sustainment.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, inspection records, and field evidence.
• Strong written communication and documentation skills for clear technical dispositions.
• Experience developing or supporting repair instructions, rework instructions, inspection criteria, and use-as-is evaluations.
• Experience in aviation/defense aerospace manufacturing and depot repair environments.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate nonconforming material, damaged hardware, returned components, production escapes, field returns, and repairable assemblies.
• Develop dispositions such as rework, repair, use-as-is, return-to-vendor, or scrap in accordance with approved authority.
• Create or update repair instructions, inspection criteria, and supporting technical documentation.
• Review engineering drawings, specifications, inspection results, manufacturing records, repair history, and field evidence.
• Coordinate with responsible engineers and cross-functional partners to ensure dispositions are safe, technically sound, and properly approved.
• Support returned-material evaluations, production-quality deficiency reviews, field-hardware investigations, and production-escape resolution.
• Maintain complete, accurate, traceable MRB records.
• Identify recurring nonconformances, manufacturing defects, supplier issues, field damage, and repair challenges; elevate trends for investigation.
• Provide technical input to root-cause and corrective-action activities with Failure Analysis, Reliability and Maintainability, Quality, and others.
• Work with Manufacturing Engineering and Quality to improve repair instructions, inspection methods, acceptance criteria, and test processes.
• Support supplier-quality investigations when purchased parts affect sustainment or fleet readiness.
• Contribute to standard repair development and continuous improvement of MRB workflows.
• Balance engineering rigor, safety, quality, configuration control, field urgency, and aircraft-readiness needs.

Skills

MRB processes

Aerospace hardware

Root-cause analysis

Technical documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Engineering drawing interpretation

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace, electrical, manufacturing, materials, or related engineering

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a Materials Review Board Engineer to evaluate nonconforming hardware for fielded unmanned aircraft systems and related equipment. This role develops dispositions, repair instructions, and supporting documentation within established MRB processes.

The engineer partners with responsible engineers, design and manufacturing teams, Quality, Supply Chain, Fleet Support, and Sustainment to ensure safe, traceable dispositions and to advance repair documentation and recurring-issue