Staff Engineering Specialist, Avionics (R5109) is open at Shield AI in Seattle, WA, US. The posting gives a salary of $36 - $54 an hour. Posted on Oct 9, 2026, and still on Shield AI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We are growing the Avionics Engineering team to support development of the X-BAT aircraft. Our team is designing a flight critical, custom avionics system to support communications, compute, AI, power, telemetry, and all other needed aircraft systems. An Avionics Specialist supports the entire Avionics team and other cross-functional teams. It is an essential role spanning design, verification, procurement…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Shield AI’s careers page.
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