Senior Supervisor, Engineering Technician

Shield AI
Dallas
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 110,000 - 170,000 annuallyFunction: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled TradesExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Mentorship","Guidance","Sound judgment","Troubleshooting","Analysis"]

Supervise engineering technicians supporting flight-critical avionics hardware testing, integration, debugging, and production/maintenance/flight support. Lead daily execution based on objectives, schedules, and engineering direction while coaching and embedding training into hands-on work. Read and apply harness/PCBA schematics, wiring diagrams, drawings, and test procedures, using electrical avionics test equipment and driving continuous improvement across troubleshooting, documentation, and tooling. Coordinate with engineering, production, quality, supply chain, and maintenance to resolve build and test issues.

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Shield AI
Shield AI
2 months ago

Senior Supervisor, Engineering Technician

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Job Summary

Supervise engineering technicians supporting flight-critical avionics hardware testing, integration, debugging, and production/maintenance/flight support. Lead daily execution based on objectives, schedules, and engineering direction while coaching and embedding training into hands-on work. Read and apply harness/PCBA schematics, wiring diagrams, drawings, and test procedures, using electrical avionics test equipment and driving continuous improvement across troubleshooting, documentation, and tooling. Coordinate with engineering, production, quality, supply chain, and maintenance to resolve build and test issues.
Location: Dallas
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled Trades
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Directly supervise engineering technicians supporting avionics system testing, integration, debugging, production support, maintenance support, and flight support.
  • •Execute team assignments based on objectives, approved processes, engineering direction, production priorities, and program schedules.
  • •Support avionics integration and test activities across bench-level, subsystem, aircraft, production, maintenance, and flight-support environments.
  • •Work with engineers and cross-functional teams to enable hardware bring-up, design verification, test execution, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, and improvements.
  • •Use and oversee electrical and avionics test equipment, analyzing test results and failure trends while coordinating corrective actions and schedule/production impacts.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 110,000 - 170,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of hands-on experience with avionics systems and aircraft electrical/electronics hardware, including harnesses, PCBAs, integrated test environments, or complex hardware systems.
  • •2+ years of experience directly supervising, leading, training, or coordinating skilled technicians in an engineering, production, test, aerospace, aviation, maintenance, or advanced manufacturing environment.
  • •Ability to read and interpret harness schematics, PCBA schematics, wiring diagrams, engineering drawings, test procedures, and work instructions.
  • •Experience performing avionics/electrical troubleshooting across wiring, connectors, PCBAs, power systems, sensors, communication interfaces, test equipment, and integrated systems.
  • •Experience using electrical and avionics test equipment such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, signal generators, analyzers, breakout boxes, and automated test systems.
Experience:6+ yearsAerospaceAviationMaintenanceAdvanced manufacturing
Skills:MentorshipGuidanceSound judgmentTroubleshootingAnalysis
Tech Stack:Avionics systemsAircraft electrical systemsHarness schematicsPCBA schematicsWiring diagramsEngineering drawingsTest proceduresMultimetersOscilloscopesPower suppliesSignal generatorsBreakout boxesBus analyzersAutomated test equipment

Company Brief

Shield AI
Develops AI-powered autonomy and software for military aircraft and drones to enable autonomous ISR and combat missions, integrating perception, navigation, and mission planning for defense customers.
Industry: Defense Technology
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Diego, United States
Founded: 2015
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