Configuration and Change Control Analyst (R5300)

Shield AI · Aircraft Operations Division

Pay: $117,000–$176,000/yr
Hours: Full Time Employee
Where: Dallas, Texas
Posted: Jul 9

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:

The Configuration and Change Control Manager is a senior individual contributor responsible for owning configuration discipline for the fielded V-BAT fleet, including aircraft, payloads, software, ground equipment, support equipment, and customer-specific configurations.This role ensures Shield AI maintains an accurate, traceable, and controlled understan…

What you'd do

Own and maintain the V-BAT fielded and as-maintained configuration baseline for aircraft, payloads, software, ground equipment, support equipment, and related sustainment assets.
Track aircraft serial numbers, hardware revisions, software versions, payload configurations, ground system configurations, fielded modifications, retrofit status, and customer-specific baselines.
Manage the change control process for fielded V-BAT systems, ensuring approved changes are controlled, traceable, and applied to the correct aircraft, customers, and configurations.
Support Engineering Change Requests, Engineering Change Orders, change impact assessments, release readiness reviews, retrofit plans, and service action planning.
Ensure fielded fixes, retrofits, software updates, hardware changes, payload changes, and service actions are tied to the correct serial numbers, configurations, customers, and effectivity ranges.
Maintain configuration records for deployed aircraft, spares, payloads, ground equipment, support equipment, and field-modified assets.
Partner with Fleet Support, Sustainment Engineering, Product Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Customer Success, Operations, and Configuration Management to control changes across the V-BAT fleet.
Support release readiness reviews for software, hardware, payload, ground system, maintenance, and support equipment updates.
Ensure changes are documented, approved, communicated, implemented, and traceable from engineering approval through field deployment.
Maintain a clear view of which customers, aircraft, payloads, ground systems, spares, and support equipment are affected by each change.