Staff Electrical Specialist - Hardware Test (R6122)
Seattle · USD 50-75 · 6+ years experience · Onsite · Posted Sep 28, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 6+ years experience
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Seattle
- Salary
- USD 50-75
About the role
- Shield AI is seeking a Staff Electrical Specialist - Hardware Test to join the team in Seattle.
- The role involves building, integrating, validating, maintaining, and repairing electrical test systems supporting defense-tech hardware and autonomy programs.
Responsibilities
- Keep critical test and production equipment safe, available, calibrated, and ready when programs need it.
- Resolve difficult electrical failures quickly and document root cause, repair, verification, and prevention clearly.
- Deliver high-quality electrical assemblies and improve team capability through strong workmanship, standard work, training, design feedback, and configuration control.
- Build, integrate, validate, maintain, and repair electrical test systems that combine custom electronics, harnesses, instruments, controls, test computers, and mechanical fixtures.
- Perform benchtop PCBA testing and advanced troubleshooting using schematics, assembly drawings, test procedures, and laboratory instruments.
- Perform high-quality PCBA, cable, harness, connector, and electromechanical rework, including inspection and verification of completed repairs.
- Design and release interface boards, simple-to-moderate PCBs, harnesses, breakout assemblies, adapters, and electrical portions of test fixtures using appropriate CAD tools.
- Select components, connectors, wire, circuit protection, relays, switches, and instrumentation; document pinouts, bills of material, drawings, and assembly instructions.
- Support equipment checkout, calibration, preventive maintenance, configuration control, spares, and lifecycle issues such as obsolescence and recurring failures.
- Respond to emergent production- and test-floor issues, restore safe operation, communicate status, and ensure temporary actions are converted into durable corrective actions.
Requirements
- 6+ years of hands-on electrical experience in aerospace, manufacturing, test, electronics, or a similarly rigorous hardware environment; equivalent military or trade experience is welcome.
- Demonstrated expertise in benchtop electrical testing, PCBA troubleshooting, and root-cause isolation using oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, electronic loads, logic analyzers, and related equipment.
- Advanced experience performing PCBA and harness assembly, modification, and rework from controlled drawings and workmanship requirements.
- Ability to read, create, and review schematics, wiring diagrams, pinouts, assembly drawings, bills of material, and test procedures.
- Experience designing and maintaining electrical test equipment, interface electronics, harnesses, or production fixtures through release and sustained use.
- Working knowledge of analog and digital circuits, power distribution and protection, grounding, shielding, connectors, communications interfaces, and electrical safety.
- A record of resolving urgent production or laboratory issues while preserving safety, quality, traceability, and configuration control, communicating clearly, and mentoring others.
- Associate degree, technical certificate, military electronics training, or equivalent practical education.
- Eligibility to obtain a U.S. security clearance if required by the program.
Preferred qualifications
- IPC workmanship certification or equivalent experience is valued.
- Experience with Altium, KiCad, OrCAD, Eagle, or comparable tools and with aircraft wiring, avionics interfaces, communications, sensors, power electronics, batteries, motors, or RF systems.
- Experience with environmental or qualification-test equipment, data-acquisition systems, programmable instruments, LabVIEW, TestStand, Python, Linux, or test computers.
- Experience applying ESD controls, electrical safe-work practices, calibration requirements, nonconformance processes, and formal configuration management.
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
- temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment for temporary employees)
Skills
- Altium
- KiCad
- OrCAD
- Eagle
- LabVIEW
- TestStand
- Python
- Linux
