Sr. Staff Product Support (R6458)

Shield AI; Seattle (WA); In loco; USD 126.000 - 190.000; Tempo pieno

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Descrizione del lavoro

Shield AI is seeking an experienced Staff Product Support to lead logistics and sustainment for a next‑generation autonomous aircraft system. You will shape maintenance concepts, provisioning inputs, spares planning, and sustainment documentation across development, flight test, production, and operations.

You will collaborate across engineering, program management, supply chain, field operations, and customers to ensure logistics requirements are integrated into design and execution, with a

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in logistics, engineering, supply chain, aviation maintenance, business, or related field; equivalent military/defense logistics experience may be considered.
• 8+ years of experience supporting UAS or fighter aircraft logistics and sustainment.
• Experience with Maintenance Task Analysis and maintenance planning data.
• Expertise with Logistics Control Number structures and provisioning, maintenance planning, and supportability analysis.
• Experience with Reliability and Maintainability principles, including failure modes, availability metrics, and LORA development.
• Hands-on supply support experience: spares planning, provisioning, inventory management, and sustainment execution.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, BOMs, configuration data, and maintenance data.
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, program management, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and field service teams.
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills to lead logistics efforts in a fast-paced program.

Mansioni

• Lead logistics and sustainment planning for a UAS program across design, production, deployment, and field support phases.
• Develop, manage, and maintain integrated logistics support products and sustainment documentation.
• Perform and manage Maintenance Task Analysis to define maintenance requirements, task frequencies, tools, and labor hours.
• Develop and maintain Logistics Control Number structures to support provisioning and documentation.
• Partner with engineering, program management, manufacturing, and customer stakeholders to embed logistics in design and execution.
• Support Reliability and Maintainability activities, including Level of Repair Analysis and availability improvement initiatives.
• Lead supply support activities: spares analysis, provisioning, inventory planning, and obsolescence management.
• Coordinate with suppliers, depots, repair vendors, and internal teams to ensure timely parts availability.
• Support proposals, basis of estimate inputs, staffing plans, and logistics cost estimates for UAS programs.
• Ensure logistics activities comply with defense standards, export controls, and company processes.

Conoscenze

Logistics analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical skills

Communication

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in logistics, engineering, supply chain, aviation maintenance, business

Strumenti

PowerLOG-J

SLICwave

COMPASS

CASA

OPUS10/ EAGLE

ERP / MRP systems (SAP, Oracle)

Descrizione del lavoro

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BATaircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

We are seeking an experienced Staff Product Support to support the design, development, integration, and fielding of a next-generation autonomous aircraft system. This role will lead the logistics planning, supply support, sustainment analysis, and lifecycle support activities across development, flight test, production, and operational sustainment.

The ideal candidate has strong experience supporting military or defense aviation programs and understands how logistics products, supportability analysis, maintenance planning, and supply chain execution contribute to mission availability and operational readiness. This position requires hands‑on experience with Maintenance Task Analysis, Logistics Control Numbers, Reliability and Maintainability artifacts, and Supply Support planning and execution.

What You’ll Do

• Lead logistics and sustainment planning activities for a UAS program across design, production, deployment, and field support phases.
• Develop, manage, and maintain integrated logistics support products, including maintenance concepts, support equipment design, provisioning inputs, spares planning, and sustainment documentation.
• Perform and manage Maintenance Task Analysis to define preventive and corrective maintenance requirements, task frequencies, required tools, support equipment, skill levels, labor hours, and maintenance levels.
• Develop and maintain Logistics Control Number structures to support provisioning, maintenance planning, technical documentation, configuration tracking, and sustainment data management.
• Partner with engineering, program management, manufacturing, supply chain, field operations, and customer stakeholders to ensure logistics requirements are incorporated into system design and program execution.
• Support Reliability and Maintainability activities, including Level of Repair Analysis, FMECA data analysis, maintainability assessments, corrective action planning, reliability growth inputs, and operational availability improvement initiatives.
• Lead supply support activities, including spares analysis, provisioning, parts forecasting, inventory planning, reorder recommendations, repair pipeline coordination, sustainment risk identification, and obsolescence management.
• Coordinate with suppliers, depots, repair vendors, and internal teams to ensure timely availability of parts, support equipment, and logistics resources.
• Support proposal development, basis of estimate inputs, staffing plans, sustainment strategies, and logistics cost estimates for new and existing UAS programs.
• Ensure logistics activities comply with applicable defense standards, contract requirements, export control requirements, and company processes.

What You’ll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in logistics, engineering, supply chain, aviation maintenance, business, or a related field; equivalent military or defense logistics experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• 8+ years of experience supporting UAS or fighter aircraft logistics and sustainment
• Demonstrated experience with Maintenance Task Analysis and development of maintenance planning data.
• Expertise of Logistics Control Number structures and their use in provisioning, maintenance planning, and supportability analysis.
• Experience with Reliability and Maintainability principles, including failure modes, maintainability drivers, reliability growth, availability metrics, and field performance analysis, and LORA development
• Hands‑on supply support experience, including spares planning, provisioning, inventory management, parts forecasting, repairables management, and sustainment execution.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, bills of material, configuration data, maintenance data, and technical documentation.
• Experience working cross‑functionally with engineering, program management, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, field service, and customer teams.
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills with the ability to lead logistics efforts in a fast‑paced program environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience with integrated product support elements, including product support management, supply support, support equipment, manpower and personnel, facilities, maintenance planning,
• Experience with provisioning, sparing, or supportability tools such as PowerLOG-J, SLICwave, COMPASS, CASA, OPUS10, EAGLE, or similar systems.
• Knowledge of MIL-STD-1388 legacy logistics concepts, GEIA-STD-0007, SAE TA-STD-0017, MIL-HDBK-502A, or related product support standards.
• Experience developing logistics inputs for CDRLs, technical manuals, maintenance plans, provisioning data, sparing recommendations, or lifecycle sustainment plans.
• Experience with ERP, PLM, or MRP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Costpoint, Teamcenter, Arena, Windchill, or similar platforms.
• Active and current security clearance

$126,000 - $190,000 a year

Full-time regular employee offer package:

Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee offer package:

Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part‑time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.

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