Shield AI
Principal Engineer, Material Review Board (R5309)
Dallas, Texas · Principal · Part-time
No sponsorship$170k-$260kDetected 8 days ago
Supply ChainRecruitingCustomer SupportAvionicsLeadership
About the role
- Its products include Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft.
- For more information, visit www.shield.ai.
- Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical dispositions for nonconforming material, damaged hardware, returned components, field returns, production escapes, and repairable assemblies.
- Develop standard repair procedures, repair limits, inspection criteria, and disposition guidance for recurring hardware issues.
- Support returned material analysis, production quality deficiency reports, production escape investigations, and field hardware issue reviews.
- Partner with responsible engineers, design engineering, manufacturing engineering, quality, fleet support, supply chain, and chief engineers to ensure dispositions are technically sound and executable.
- Partner with Manufacturing Engineering and Quality to improve inspection methods, acceptance criteria, repair execution, test processes, and production controls.
- Support supplier quality investigations when supplier parts, materials, or assemblies impact aircraft sustainment or fleet readiness.
- Help ensure hardware issues are resolved in a way that protects safety, quality, reliability, configuration discipline, customer support, and fleet readiness.
- Mentor engineers and cross-functional partners on MRB discipline, disposition quality, repair documentation, and sustainment repair governance.
- The Principal Material Review Board Engineer leads the development and execution of Material Review Board processes for fielded UAS platforms and related systems.
- This role is responsible for dispositioning nonconforming hardware, developing standard repair procedures, and establishing scalable repair governance processes for post-production, depot, and field sustainment operations.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience dispositioning nonconforming hardware, damaged components, returned material, production escapes, field failures, or repairable assemblies.
- Strong understanding of nonconforming material processes, MRB workflows, repair dispositions, inspection records, engineering documentation, and corrective action systems.
- Strong technical judgment with the ability to evaluate hardware issues based on safety, structural integrity, reliability, maintainability, configuration impact, and fleet readiness.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, inspection results, manufacturing records, repair records, and field evidence.
- Strong documentation discipline, including the ability to write clear technical dispositions, repair rationale, risk assessments, and corrective action inputs.
- Ability to operate independently as a principal technical IC and influence cross-functional decisions without direct authority.
Nice to have
- Experience with aviation, defense, aerospace manufacturing, unmanned systems, aircraft sustainment, depot repair, field repair, or deployed hardware systems.
- Experience with composite structures, metallic structures, bonded assemblies, fastened assemblies, avionics hardware, propulsion components, payload interfaces, or complex electromechanical assemblies.
- Familiarity with RCCA, FRACAS, PQDR, AS9100, configuration management, ECO/ECR processes, service bulletins, maintenance releases, or field retrofit execution.
- Experience supporting supplier quality investigations, production escape resolution, returned material analysis, depot repair development, or field repair governance.
- Active Secret or Top Secret clearance preferred.
- Full-time regular employee offer package:
- Temporary employee offer package:
- All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
Compensation
- 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.
Benefits
- Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
- Provide technical input to corrective actions, product health reviews, repair governance reviews, and sustainment leadership updates.
Company info
- Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.
- With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI's technology actively supports operations worldwide.
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