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Shield AI

Director, Engineering Excellence & Design Standards

Seattle, WA · On-site · Senior

Discipline
Other
Industry
Defense
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X-BAT Division

Senior technical leader to define and operationalize engineering design standards across the company, driving consistency, rigor, and scalability in design, analysis, certification, CAD, documentation, and configuration management.

Day shift

Required

  • engineering design standards
  • engineering excellence
  • CAD
  • documentation
  • configuration management
  • certification
  • across multiple engineering disciplines

Preferred

  • cross-disciplinary leadership
  • scalability of design processes
  • quality assurance
  • engineering governance

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Employer description

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: 

Shield AI is building the world’s best AI pilot to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. As we scale both our proven VBAT platform and develop next-generation systems like XBAT, we are investing in how we build—not just what we build. 
We are seeking a senior technical leader to define and operationalize engineering design standards across the company. This position is focused on establishing engineering excellence—driving consistency, rigor, and scalability across design, analysis, certification, CAD, documentation, and configuration management. 
This is a high-impact individual contributor role with broad scope across multiple engineering disciplines, responsible for raising the bar on engineering quality without slowing down execution. 

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