Firestorm

Test Automation Engineer

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5 days 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.

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