Senior Environmental Test Technician (R6211)

Telemetry Today LLC; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking an Environmental Test Technician to prepare, execute, and manage environmental tests on electronic flight hardware. You will instrument hardware with thermocouples, accelerometers, strain gauges, and humidity sensors, configure data acquisition, and model test fixtures in CAD.

You will run multiple campaigns, schedule equipment, and ensure high data quality throughout tests. You will monitor tests, investigate failures, and document results in clear reports for disposition

Qualifications

• Experience designing and executing environmental test campaigns.
• Ability to instrument hardware with sensors and collect quality data.
• Familiarity with setup, calibration, and fault isolation in lab/benchtop environments.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, execute, and manage environmental tests on electronic flight hardware.
• Instrument hardware with sensors and configure data acquisition systems.
• Design test fixtures and load chambers for thermal, vibration, shock, humidity, and altitude tests.
• Document results and create clear reports for stakeholders.

Skills

Test planning

CAD modeling

Instrumentation

Data acquisition

Troubleshooting

Tools

CAD software

Data acquisition systems

Thermocouples

Accelerometers

Humidity sensors

Job description

As a Environmental Test Technician at Shield AI, you'll prepare, execute, and manage environmental tests on electronic flight hardware across the VBAT and XBAT aircraft, ensuring it meets performance requirements through rigorous thermal, vibration, shock, humidity, and altitude testing. This is a highly hands-on role. Working with design and reliability stakeholders, you'll help define test plans — stress profiles, setup, and instrumentation — then bring them to the bench: designing and modeling test fixtures in CAD, instrumenting hardware with thermocouples, accelerometers, strain gauges, and humidity sensors, configuring data acquisition, and programming and loading chambers. You'll frequently run several campaigns at once, owning the equipment scheduling needed to keep them moving without compromising data quality.

Once tests are running, you'll operate the equipment, monitor for and investigate failures, and reduce and document results in clear reports — including the plots and visualizations stakeholders rely on to make disposition and qualification decisions. You'll work with cutting-edge deep-tech hardware, collaborate across disciplines, and directly influence product quality and long-term reliability over the vehicles’ lifecycles.