Shield AI
Staff Engineer, Quality Assurance (R5358)
Wichita Metro Area · On-site · Senior
- Discipline
- Manufacturing
- Industry
- Defense
Spec sheet
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X-BAT Division
Staff Engineer, Quality Assurance (R5358) at Shield AI seeks a quality-focused engineer for flight test support of the X-BAT program. Role emphasizes configuration control, inspection, documentation, and risk management across flight test, systems, design, manufacturing, and program teams to ensure compliant test activities and traceability.
Required
- Quality Assurance
- flight test
- configuration and traceability
- discrepancy resolution
- engineering requirements
- approved processes
- test engineering coordination
Preferred
- embedded with flight test
- configuration management
- root cause analysis
- surface/assembly quality control
- doc control
- risk management
Benefits
- medical
- 401k
- PTO
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 seeking a Quality Assurance to support the development and flight test of the X-BAT program. This role is heavily embedded with flight test and engineering operations and is responsible for ensuring test articles are properly configured, inspected, documented, and ready for safe and effective ground and flight testing.You will work closely with flight test, systems, design, manufacturing, test engineering, and program teams to identify and manage quality risks, resolve discrepancies, maintain configuration and traceability, and ensure test activities are executed in accordance with engineering requirements and approved processes.
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