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Shield AI · X-BAT Division- Pay
- $100,000–$150,000/yr
- Hours
- Full Time Employee
- Where
- Seattle, Washington
- Posted
- Sep 25
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-BAT aircraft, 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.
Job Description:
Shield AI develops intelligent autonomous systems that protect service members and civilians.
What you'd do
- Execute documented RF test plans and procedures with mentorship, record test configurations, and produce clear, traceable results.
- Characterize RF modules and assemblies for S-parameters, gain and loss, output power, compression, harmonics and spurious emissions, isolation, rejection, noise figure, and receiver sensitivity as applicable.
- Set up and operate vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters, oscilloscopes, noise-figure equipment, programmable power supplies, and related laboratory instruments.
- Calibrate measurement setups and characterize cables, adapters, attenuators, fixtures, and other sources of measurement error.
- Develop simple test fixtures, harnesses, interface adapters, and monitoring circuits; perform basic soldering and hardware rework when appropriate.
- Automate instrument control, data collection, analysis, and plotting using Python, MATLAB, or comparable tools.
- Compare measured performance with requirements, identify unexpected behavior, and summarize conclusions in engineering reports and reviews.
- Troubleshoot test anomalies with senior engineers and learn to distinguish device behavior from setup, calibration, software, or environmental artifacts.
- Support EMI/EMC pre-compliance and MIL-STD-461 qualification testing, environmental testing, hardware integration, and ground or flight test activities as needed.
- Maintain safe, organized laboratory practices and follow equipment calibration, configuration-control, and data-management processes.