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Shield AI

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
San DiegoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Manufacturing
Posted
Apr 14, 2025
Salary
$114,266–$171,400 a year
Full-time

Senior Engineer, Automated Test (R4461)

Job description

The Hivemind Software Engineering Integration and Test team is seeking a Senior Automated Test Engineer to design, develop, and scale advanced automated testing and CI/CD infrastructure for our next-generation autonomy platform. You will help develop test frameworks that enable this software ecosystem to create, test and deploy resilient autonomy capabilities for unmanned aircraft and robotic platforms operating in complex, contested, and GPS-denied environments.

In this role, you will help ensure the reliability, scalability, and quality of the Hivemind ecosystem through advanced automation, validation infrastructure, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Job responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for Autonomy and UI applications.
  • Develop scalable automated test infrastructure for functional, integration, regression, system, and end-to-end testing across distributed software and hardware environments.
  • Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab using YAML configurations and shell scripting to support automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
  • Build workflow automation tools and utilities in Python to improve test execution efficiency, reporting, environment setup, and developer productivity.
  • Develop and maintain UI and API test automation using Go and TypeScript for modern web-based operator interfaces and mission control applications.
  • Integrate automated testing into continuous integration environments to support rapid software delivery and high reliability standards.
  • Collaborate closely with software, autonomy, simulation, and systems engineering teams to define verification strategies and improve software quality throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Develop automated validation solutions for safety-critical and mission-critical aerospace software systems.

Job requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building scalable, maintainable automation frameworks and/or developer tooling in Python.
  • 5+ years of experience working with package management, dependency management, and build systems using tools such as conan, pip, setuptools, poetry, and nix or similar.
  • 5+ years of experience building tooling for automated log collection, analytics, reporting, and failure triage.
  • Strong understanding of asynchronous and concurrent programming in Python for scalable automation and parallel test execution.
  • Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, YAML, and shell scripting.
  • Experience with automated testing of distributed systems, backend services, APIs, and web-based UIs.
  • Familiarity with modern test frameworks, automated validation strategies, and software quality methodologies.
  • Experience working in Linux-based development environments.
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