Staff Engineer, Aircraft Thermal Systems - Ranger (R6351) is open at Shield AI in Seattle, WA, US. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $235K. Posted on Oct 28, 2026, and still on Shield AI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As a Staff (L4) Aircraft Thermal Systems Engineer, you will take full technical ownership of thermal analysis, design, and vehicle integration for a Group 5 UAV fighter aircraft. You will work from first principles to characterize aircraft-level thermal environments, evaluate heat-transfer pathways, develop cooling solutions, correlate analytical and computational models, and deliver robust thermal systems and…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Shield AI’s careers page.
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