Senior Staff Product Support – Autonomous Aircraft

About the role

Shield AI is seeking a senior staff product support professional to lead logistics, sustainment, and lifecycle support for its next‑generation autonomous aircraft system. The role spans design, development, flight test, production and operational phases, ensuring mission availability and readiness.

Key responsibilities

• Lead logistics and sustainment planning for a UAS program across design, production, deployment and field support phases.
• Develop and maintain integrated logistics support products, including maintenance concepts, support equipment design, provisioning inputs, spares planning and sustainment documentation.
• Perform Maintenance Task Analysis to define preventive and corrective maintenance requirements, task frequencies, tools, skill levels and labor hours.
• Create and manage Logistics Control Number structures for provisioning, maintenance planning and configuration tracking.
• Partner with engineering, program management, manufacturing, supply chain and field operations to embed logistics requirements into system design.
• Support Reliability and Maintainability activities such as Level of Repair Analysis, FMECA, reliability growth and availability improvement initiatives.
• Lead supply support functions including spares analysis, parts forecasting, inventory planning, repair pipeline coordination and obsolescence management.
• Coordinate with suppliers, depots and repair vendors to ensure timely availability of parts and logistics resources.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in logistics, engineering, supply chain, aviation maintenance or related field, or equivalent military/defense logistics experience.
• 8+ years of experience supporting UAS or fighter aircraft logistics and sustainment.
• Demonstrated expertise in Maintenance Task Analysis, Logistics Control Number management and Reliability & Maintainability principles.
• Hands‑on experience with spares planning, provisioning, inventory management and sustainment execution.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, bills of material and technical documentation.
• Proven cross‑functional collaboration with engineering, program management, manufacturing and field service teams.

Required skills

• Maintenance Task Analysis
• Logistics Control Number (LCN) management
• Reliability and Maintainability analysis (LORA, FMECA)
• Spare parts planning and provisioning
• Inventory management and parts forecasting
• Repairables management and obsolescence handling
• Interpretation of engineering drawings and bills of material
• Use of logistics support tools (PowerLOG‑J, SLICwave, COMPASS, CASA, OPUS10, EAGLE)
• Knowledge of MIL‑STD‑1388, GEIA‑STD‑0007, SAE TA‑STD‑0017, MIL‑HDBK‑502A
• Experience with ERP/PLM/MRP systems (SAP, Oracle, Costpoint, Teamcenter, Arena, Windchill)