As a Maintenance Technician II, you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, safety, and mission readiness of Shield AI’s X-Bat unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and associated Ground Support Equipment (GSE). This role supports day-to-day aircraft maintenance, troubleshooting, inspection, repair, and documentation while working closely with cross-functional teams to improve maintenance practices.
What you’ll do:
- Conduct organizational-level maintenance on X-BAT unmanned aircraft systems and associated GSE.
- ·Inspect, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain aircraft systems, components, and associated equipment.
- Use technical manuals, work instructions, engineering drawings, inspection criteria, torque specifications, and service bulletins to complete maintenance accurately and safely.
- Document inspections, discrepancies, repairs, component replacements, and other maintenance actions in accordance with company procedures and applicable quality requirements.
- Construct wiring harnesses and solder necessary components to maintain X-BAT unmanned aircraft systems and associated GSE.
- Comply with written training and certification requirements for maintenance personnel.
- ·Support the development and improvement of maintenance task instructions, inspection checklists, and future maintenance manuals.
- Build relationships with engineering, quality, production, flight operations, supply chain, and field support to ensure maintenance best practices are in place.
- Comply with the company’s tool control, Foreign Object Debris (FOD) prevention, Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT), Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), and safety programs.
Required qualifications:
- Experience in aviation maintenance and operations, including coordination across multiple departments.
- Ability to read and follow technical manuals, illustrated parts catalogs, engineering drawings, torque specifications, inspection criteria, and maintenance work instructions.
- Proficiency using maintenance tools and precision measuring equipment, including torque wrenches, calipers, micrometers, feeler gauges, and related inspection tools.
- Ability to inspect aircraft components for wear, cracks, corrosion, damage, and compliance with applicable inspection criteria.
- Ability to maintain accurate maintenance, inspection, configuration, and quality records.
- Ability to travel as needed.
- Ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance.
- Significant experience and proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and showing kindness to others.
- U.S.-issued passport.
Preferred qualifications:
- FAA Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) license or equivalent internal or external certification demonstrating technical competency.
- Experience with unmanned aerial systems.
- Ducted-fan VTOL aircraft, or expeditionary UAS operations.
- Experience with Group 2 or Group 3 UAS maintenance, field support, launch and recovery operations, or deployed aviation maintenance environments.
- Experience in avionics.
- IPC certification.
- Experience with maintenance data collection, failure reporting, root-cause analysis, continuous improvement, or development of maintenance work instructions.
Skills Required
- Experience in aviation maintenance and operations, including coordination across multiple departments
- Ability to read and follow technical manuals, illustrated parts catalogs, engineering drawings, torque specifications, inspection criteria, and maintenance work instructions
- Proficiency with maintenance tools and precision measuring equipment, including torque wrenches, calipers, micrometers, and feeler gauges
- Ability to inspect aircraft components for wear, cracks, corrosion, damage, and compliance with inspection criteria
- Ability to maintain accurate maintenance, inspection, configuration, and quality records
- Ability to travel as needed
- Ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance
- Significant experience and proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proven record of hard work, trustworthiness, teamwork, high standards, and kindness
- U.S.-issued passport
- FAA Airframe and Powerplant license or equivalent technical competency certification
- Experience with unmanned aerial systems
- Experience with ducted-fan VTOL aircraft or expeditionary UAS operations
- Experience with Group 2 or Group 3 UAS maintenance, field support, launch and recovery operations, or deployed aviation maintenance environments
- Experience in avionics
- IPC certification
- Experience with maintenance data collection, failure reporting, root-cause analysis, continuous improvement, or maintenance work-instruction development
What the Team is Saying
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials highlight comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with mental-health support and an EAP. Third-party benefits summaries also portray health coverage as a strong component of the package.
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Retirement Support — Offerings include a 401(k) with employer matching, cited on the careers page and independent benefits directories. Multiple sources indicate a match exists, though exact formulas have varied over time and warrant confirmation.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Company communications describe equity for all full-time hires and stock benefits as part of total rewards. Independent listings also note company equity/RSUs as a standard element.
Shield AI Insights
What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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