2 months ago
San Diego, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$150k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build scenario-based automated tests for aircraft capabilities, interfaces, failures, and recovery behavior.
- Develop test frameworks, harnesses, services, and tooling for SIL, HIL, and VIL environments.
- Convert release test plans into repeatable automated campaigns with clear results and failure reporting.
- Improve test configuration, execution, data collection, analysis, and reporting across environments.
- Debug integration failures involving aircraft software, interfaces, networking, hardware, simulation, and test infrastructure.
- Identify testing gaps with software and systems engineers and improve the scalability and maintainability of the test platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering, test automation, integration, or related experience.
- U.S. person required due to ITAR regulations.
- Strong programming skills in Python, C++, or similar languages.
- Experience building automated test frameworks, harnesses, or infrastructure and testing complex integrated software systems.
- Experience with SIL, HIL, VIL, simulation, or other hardware-connected test environments.
- Strong debugging skills across software, interfaces, networking, and hardware.
- Experience automating test execution, data collection, result reporting, and integration with CI/CD or software release workflows.
- Preferred: experience with autonomous systems, robotics, aircraft, vehicles, scenario-based testing, fault injection, distributed test orchestration, telemetry or time-series data, and aerospace, defense, UAS, or safety-critical software.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan, equity grants, unlimited PTO, generous parental leave, and a generous holiday calendar including July and December holiday hiatuses.
- Lifestyle Spending Account, FSA, DCFSA, HSA, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident insurance.
- Basic life/AD&D and short- and long-term disability insurance are 100% covered by Firestorm, with optional additional life insurance.
- Free 24/7 mental health resources and additional work-life services including legal and financial support.
- Role is based in San Diego, California; local candidates and candidates open to relocating are welcome, and relocation assistance may be available.
About Firestorm
Firestorm builds modular, open-architecture unmanned systems and mission-configurable hardware for defense customers, leveraging additive manufacturing to rapidly tailor platforms for diverse Department of Defense mission areas. Its fielded xCell platform is being developed in multiple variants and supported across mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing interfaces. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Diego, the privately held company sells hardware platforms and components to U.S. and allied military programs.