Senior Supervisor, Engineering Technician (R5375)

About the role

Founded in 2015, 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 and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI's technology actively supports operations worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Directly supervise professional and skilled engineering technicians supporting avionics system testing, integration, debugging, production support, maintenance support, and flight support activities.
• Execute team assignments based on defined objectives, approved processes, engineering direction, production priorities, and program schedules.
• Read, interpret, and apply harness schematics, PCBA schematics, wiring diagrams, interface control documents, engineering drawings, test procedures, work instructions, and production documentation.
• Support avionics integration and test activities from bench-level checkout through subsystem, aircraft, production, maintenance, and flight-support environments.
• Work closely with engineers to support hardware bring-up, design verification, test execution, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, and design or process improvements.
• Partner with production teams to resolve build issues, installation problems, test failures, rework needs, hardware readiness concerns, and schedule constraints.
• Collaborate with quality teams to ensure work complies with inspection requirements, workmanship standards, configuration control expectations, nonconformance processes, and approved procedures.
• Coordinate with supply chain teams to communicate material shortages, suspect hardware, part replacement needs, supplier issues, and impacts to build, test, or flight-readiness schedules.
• Support maintenance technicians and flight support team members during aircraft checkout, avionics troubleshooting, system modification, ground test, and flight readiness activities.
• Administer company policies and procedures directly affecting employees, including expectations related to safety, quality, attendance, work assignments, training, performance, compliance, and conduct.
• Analyze data and relevant factors, including test results, failure trends, technician workload, schedule performance, hardware status, quality findings, material availability, and operational risks.
• Develop, manage, and adjust routine operational plans to support daily priorities, weekly execution, production needs, integration milestones, maintenance activities, flight support, and monthly targets.
• Use and oversee use of electrical and avionics test equipment, including multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, signal generators, breakout boxes, bus analyzers, automated test equipment, and related lab or production tools.
• Drive continuous improvement in technician training, troubleshooting methods, test procedures, documentation quality, tooling, workflow, and operational execution.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience with avionics systems, aircraft electrical systems, electronics, 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 or 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.
• Demonstrated ability to provide guidance and training to technicians during hands-on technical work.
• Demonstrated ability to execute assignments based on defined objectives, established processes, schedule priorities, and operational targets.
• Experience administering workplace policies, reinforcing safety and quality standards, and supporting employee performance expectations.
• Ability to analyze technical data, test results, operational constraints, schedule risks, quality findings, material availability, and operational risks to determine appropriate next steps.
• Sound judgment in prioritizing work, assigning resources, escalating risks, and making decisions within defined objectives and processes.
• Ability to work effectively with engineering, production, quality, supply chain, maintenance technicians, flight support team members, subordinate supervisors, and functional peers.

Qualifications

• Ability to work effectively with engineering, production, quality, supply chain, maintenance technicians, flight support team members, subordinate supervisors, and functional peers.

Skills

• Technical credibility in guiding a team through complex, high-consequence avionics work.
• Training and mentoring of technicians.
• Interpreting policies and procedures.
• Using electrical and avionics test equipment.
• Driving continuous improvement in technician training, troubleshooting methods, test procedures, documentation quality, tooling, workflow, and operational execution.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$110,000 - $170,000 a year

Schedule

Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)