Skip to main content
CareerApp

Director, Aerostructures X-BAT

Shield AI

Seattle, WA · full time · Director

$210,000 – $320,000

Listed on Shield AI’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

Lead the structural engineering strategy and execution for X-BAT, Shield AI's next-generation autonomous aircraft, overseeing teams responsible for primary structures, subsystem integration, and manufacturing. This role suits an experienced aerospace leader who excels at building and scaling engineering organizations while solving complex technical challenges in contested environments.

Our summary, not Shield AI’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

Log in to see which of these are already on your profile.

What they ask for

Required

  • Lead multidisciplinary structural engineering teams
  • Develop and scale aircraft structures for autonomous platforms
  • Oversee primary structures, subsystem integration, and manufacturability
  • Drive strategy and architecture for advanced aerostructures

Turn on analytics and we load Google Analytics: Google gets the pages you open and what you do here — searches, jobs you view, jobs you apply to — and sets its own cookies. Leave it off and the only cookies we set are your login, your theme, and this answer. Accept All also records a yes to advertising, which nothing uses yet. Privacy Policy.