Senior Environmental Test Technician (R6211)
Shield AI · Seattle
Manufacturing & OperationsX-BAT DivisionOn-siteFull Time Employee
Shield AI is hiring a Senior Environmental Test Technician (R6211) in Seattle, Washington (on-site, full-time). Posted 9 October 2026. Apply directly on Shield AI's own careers site — no account needed.
Job Description:
As a Environmental Test Technician at Shield AI, you'll prepare, execute, and manage environmental tests on electronic flight hardware across the VBAT and XBAT aircraft, ensuring it meets performance requirements through rigorous thermal, vibration, shock, humidity, and altitude testing. This is a highly hands-on role. Working with design and reliability stakeholders, you'll help define test plans — stress profiles, setup, and instrumentation — then bring them to the bench: installing test articles, instrumenting hardware with thermocouples, accelerometers, strain gauges, and humidity sensors, configuring data acquisition, and programming and loading chambers. You'll frequently run several campaigns at once, prioritizing tests as needed to keep them moving without compromising data quality.
Once tests are running, you'll operate the equipment, monitor for and investigate failures, and reduce and document results in clear reports — including the plots and visualizations stakeholders rely on to make disposition and qualification decisions. You'll work with cutting-edge deep-tech hardware, collaborate across disciplines, and directly influence product quality and long-term reliability over the vehicles’ lifecycles.
What you'll do:
- Operate and continuously improve a world-class environmental test lab for electronics that includes HALT/HASS chambers, thermal-humidity chambers, vibration/shock equipment, and data acquisition equipment.
- Develop and implement lab procedures for use of environmental test equipment, test setup and tear down, data acquisition, and test reporting.
- Perform reliability tests on electronic products, including thermal cycling, temperature-humidity soaks, HALT, HASS, vibration, and shock testing.
- Develop lab best-practices, including automation of data acquisition, defining test plans, documenting test results, and management of tests.
- Manage procurement and maintenance of lab consumables, including instrumentation, adhesives, fasteners, and fixtures.
- Oversee the maintenance, organization, and safety of all laboratory equipment and work areas.
- Work with external laboratories to perform environmental tests as necessary.
- Educate stakeholders on environmental test best-practices to improve test plans and design-for-test practices.
- Stay current with industry trends, advancements, and best practices in all aspects of environmental testing and equipment.
Required qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience with environmental testing, including temperature cycling, vibration, highly accelerated limit testing (HALT), and highly-accelerated stress screening (HASS).
- Candidate must be self-starting and come with a growth mindset, with excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Knowledgeable in data acquisition equipment and instrumentation, including thermocouples, accelerometers, humidity sensors, and strain gauges.
- Familiarity with electronics (PCBs, PCBAs, electronic components) and moving mechanical assemblies. Knowledgeable in failure mechanisms including solder fatigue, intermetallic growth, conductive anodic filaments, tin whiskers, electromigration, and corrosion.
- Team-player with clear and concise written and oral communication skills.
- Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product test from concept to production.
- Experience with management of technical projects.
- Familiarity with relevant industry test standards, including IPC, JEDEC, MIL, and ASTM standards.
Preferred qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in a reliability testing role, including temperature cycling, vibration, highly accelerated limit testing (HALT), and highly-accelerated stress screening (HASS).
- Familiarity with reliability concepts, including Weibull statistics, accelerated life test design, highly-accelerated limit testing (HALT), and highly-accelerated stress screening (HASS).
- Proficiency in CAD modelling software, including ANSYS SpaceClaim, NX, or Solidworks.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Reliability Engineering.
- Prior experience managing an environmental test lab.
- Proficiency in Python, including NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Plotly, and Matplotlib.
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