Shield Senior Staff Lab Manager at Shield AI leads the design, development, and operation of engineering laboratories supporting hardware and software teams. This role involves lab infrastructure modernization, asset management, and team leadership.
Responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced Senior Staff Lab Manager to lead the design, development, operation, and long-term strategy of our engineering laboratories. This is a highly technical leadership role responsible for creating world-class lab environments that enable hardware and software engineering teams to rapidly develop, integrate, test, and validate complex systems.
The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong operational leadership, driving lab architecture, infrastructure modernization, asset management, and engineering support while leading a team of engineers and technicians.
Lab Strategy & Infrastructure
Own the overall vision, architecture, and roadmap for engineering laboratory infrastructure.
Design, build, and commission new laboratory spaces to support evolving engineering programs.
Define standards for laboratory layout, power distribution, networking, cooling, safety, security, and scalability.
Develop long-term modernization plans to ensure laboratory capabilities remain aligned with engineering needs.
Evaluate and implement new technologies, tools, and automation to improve laboratory efficiency and reliability.
Own day-to-day laboratory operations across multiple engineering disciplines.
Develop scheduling processes that maximize lab utilization while minimizing conflicts and downtime.
Plan and coordinate preventative maintenance, calibration, repairs, and equipment lifecycle management.
Manage laboratory uptime, availability, and operational readiness.
Qualification
Power distributionNetwork architectureServer and storage systemsEnvironmental controlsExperience managing equipment lifecycleExperience supporting roboticsProgramming and scripting experiencePython
Required
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
10+ years of experience supporting complex engineering laboratories or technical infrastructure.
5+ years of technical leadership or people management experience.
Demonstrated experience designing and building engineering labs from concept through deployment.
Strong understanding of laboratory infrastructure, including:
Power distribution
Network architecture
Server and storage systems
Environmental controls
Experience managing equipment lifecycle, maintenance, calibration, upgrades, and modernization.
