Shield AI is seeking a Senior Staff Structural Analysis & Vibration Engineer to serve as the structural and vibration subject-matter expert (SME) for V-BAT. V-BAT is a Group 3 vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system in production and deployed with customers worldwide.

This is a high-impact, company-level role. You will develop and define system-level structural requirements, design criteria, analysis methods, and material allowables that will guide structural work across V-BAT. You will also mentor engineers in FEA and structural fundamentals.

This role is ideal for engineers with 12–15+ years of experience who have served as the structural lead or technical authority on an aircraft program.

Develop and maintain company structural standards, including design criteria, factors of safety and margin policy, analysis methods, material allowables, and joint design practices.

Own V-BAT system loads, and define structural requirements for subsystems, components, and suppliers.

Lead and perform static, stability, modal, dynamic, and fatigue analyses of V-BAT structures using hand calculations and FEA (Simcenter).

Lead composite structural analysis and define composite design requirements.

Serve as the bolted joint expert for the program.

Own vibration and shock environments. Assess existing profiles and use measured flight data to develop defensible test requirements.

Define and improve vibration test requirements and processes, from test planning through verification, validation, and model-to-test correlation.

Lead a program-wide weight optimization review of existing designs, and analyze new designs for weight efficiency and material selection.

Review structural analyses, test reports, and design review content, and present findings to engineering leadership and customers.

Senior Staff Engineer, Structures and Vibration (6237)

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