Senior Staff Electrical Engineer (R5988)
Seattle · USD 210,000-320,000 / year · 8+ years experience · Onsite · Posted Sep 24, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Seattle
- Salary
- USD 210,000-320,000 / year
About the role
- Shield AI is seeking a Senior Staff Electrical Engineer to support the design, development, integration, and fielding of a next-generation autonomous aircraft system.
- This position requires a balance of technical rigor, rapid decision-making, and hands-on engineering to efficiently transition concepts into operational capability.
Responsibilities
- Drive architecture, sub-system, and circuit design for our next generation aircraft and its support equipment.
- Support the design and integration of complex embedded systems and sensors which enable aircraft autonomy and AI.
- Help define technical product requirements and features.
- Lead and mentor teammates working on the same project.
- Own circuit part selection, schematic capture, simulation, analysis, verification, debugging, and release to production.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams including mechanical, embedded, software, manufacturing, and supply chain.
- Manage your project timelines and deliverables.
- Conduct and attend cross-functional design reviews.
- Work closely with Firmware to integrate applicable logic designs into the build/release cycle.
- Help develop automated test solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering; or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years of industry experience as an Electrical Engineer
- Strong technical fundamentals
- Contributed to and led multiple product design cycles involving EE, ME, and SW engineering
- Demonstrated track record of extreme ownership, working hard, and delivering outstanding outcomes
- A track record of successfully shipping products, showcasing the ability to navigate through development cycles, overcome obstacles, and deliver high-quality solutions to meet project deadlines and exceed expectations in a fast-paced environment
- Proactively identify opportunities for improvement within hardware development projects, demonstrating initiative to propose and implement innovative solutions that enhance efficiency, quality, and overall project success and aircraft reliability
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
- Temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment for temporary employees
Skills
- FPGAs
- Power Management
- Analog
- Digital
- Servos
- Microcontrollers
- Sensors
- Radios
- Schematic Capture
- Simulation
- Firmware
