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Configuration and Change Control Analyst (R5300)

Shield AI · Aircraft Operations Division

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Pay
$150,000–$220,000/yr
Hours
Full Time Employee
Where
Dallas, Texas
Posted
Jul 9

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

Job Description:

The Configuration and Change Control Manager is a senior individual contributor responsible for owning configuration discipline for the fielded V-BAT fleet, including aircraft, payloads, software, ground equipment, support equipment, and customer-specific configurations.

This role ensures Shield AI maintains an accurate, traceable, and controlled underst…

What you'd do

  • Own and maintain the V-BAT fielded and as-maintained configuration baseline for aircraft, payloads, software, ground equipment, support equipment, and related sustainment assets.
  • Track aircraft serial numbers, hardware revisions, software versions, payload configurations, ground system configurations, fielded modifications, retrofit status, and customer-specific baselines.
  • Manage the change control process for fielded V-BAT systems, ensuring approved changes are controlled, traceable, and applied to the correct aircraft, customers, and configurations.
  • Support Engineering Change Requests, Engineering Change Orders, change impact assessments, release readiness reviews, retrofit plans, and service action planning.
  • Ensure fielded fixes, retrofits, software updates, hardware changes, payload changes, and service actions are tied to the correct serial numbers, configurations, customers, and effectivity ranges.
  • Maintain configuration records for deployed aircraft, spares, payloads, ground equipment, support equipment, and field-modified assets.
  • Partner with Fleet Support, Sustainment Engineering, Product Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Customer Success, Operations, and Configuration Management to control changes across the V-BAT fleet.
  • Support release readiness reviews for software, hardware, payload, ground system, maintenance, and support equipment updates.
  • Ensure changes are documented, approved, communicated, implemented, and traceable from engineering approval through field deployment.
  • Maintain a clear view of which customers, aircraft, payloads, ground systems, spares, and support equipment are affected by each change.