# Senior Staff Engineer, Aerostructures Stress Analyst (R5845) at Shield AI

- Company: Shield AI
- Role group: X-BAT Engineering - Aerostructures
- Location: Seattle, Washington
- Type: Full Time Employee
- Remote: no
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Status: active
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/bf87cf78-29a3-4f20-9601-bfe2d66f8173?ref=companies-hiring.click

## 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 Senior Staff Structural Analyst to provide advanced technical leadership in the structural analysis and validation of next-generation UAV platforms. In this role, you will serve as a senior subject-matter expert for airframe structures, leading complex analysis efforts, supporting test correlation, and ensuring structural integrity across development, flight test, and production.
 
This role is ideal for engineers with 12–15+ years of experience who have led major structural workstreams on aerospace programs and are comfortable owning analysis execution, mentoring engineers, and influencing key design tradeoffs within a program.
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