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Senior Liaison Engineer, Sustaining (R6024)

Shield AI· V-BAT Division – V-BAT Engineering - Mechanical
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Dallas, TXFull Time EmployeePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior or Staff Liaison Engineer responsible for engineering liaison and sustaining support for V-BAT production, testing, and fielded aircraft. Owns NCR/MRB dispositions, coordinates input from Structures, Thermal and Design, and drives rework/repair instructions, drawings, and long-term corrective actions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the resolution of mechanical issues arising from production, testing, fielded aircraft and customer operations, including hands-on support during builds, integration and troubleshooting.
  • Serve as the engineering point of contact and approval authority for NCR and MRB dispositions, bringing in Structures, Thermal and Design as needed to confirm a path forward.
  • Disposition nonconformances as use-as-is, repair, rework, scrap or return to vendor, with documented reasoning about the effect on form, fit, function and structural integrity.
  • Evaluate and disposition issues across a wide range of hardware, including metallic, composite and plastic parts, wire harnesses and electronic assemblies.
  • Write rework and repair instructions for individual NCRs and for standard pre-approved repairs, including inspection and acceptance criteria.
  • Partner with Quality to drive issues to resolution and lead formal root cause and corrective action (RCCA) investigations when needed, using fault trees, 5 Whys, failure analysis and test-based troubleshooting.
  • Coordinate investigations across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Test and Field Operations.
  • Decide when issues need changes to designs, drawings, processes, inspections or supplier controls, and drive CAD, drawing, specification and BOM updates through release.
  • Track recurring nonconformances and feed lessons learned back into designs and processes.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or a related field.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience for Senior Engineer, or 8+ years for Staff Engineer
  • Experience reviewing and dispositioning NCRs within an MRB process in aerospace, defense or another regulated industry.
  • Experience supporting production, sustaining engineering, fielded products or complex hardware troubleshooting.
  • Experience writing rework or repair instructions for production hardware.
  • A track record of resolving technical issues through verified corrective action, including formal RCCA.
  • Proficiency with 3D CAD, engineering drawings, GD&T and mechanical design for manufacturing.
  • Strong technical writing and documentation skills, and clear communication across teams.

Skills

Required:NCR and MRB dispositions3D CADGD&TRepair and rework instructionsRoot cause analysis (RCCA)

Benefits

  • Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
  • Temporary employee offer package (applicable after 60 days of employment) + temporary benefits package
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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