over 1 year ago
Base Salary
$114k - $171k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for autonomy and UI applications.
- Build scalable infrastructure for functional, integration, regression, system, and end-to-end testing across distributed software and hardware environments.
- Create and maintain GitLab CI pipelines using YAML and shell scripting for automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
- Develop Python workflow automation tools for test execution, reporting, environment setup, and developer productivity.
- Develop UI and API test automation using Go and TypeScript.
- Create test harnesses, simulators, stubs, and mocks for simulated and hardware-in-the-loop verification.
- Analyze test results, troubleshoot failures, improve test coverage and execution speed, and support root-cause isolation.
- Collaborate with software, autonomy, simulation, and systems engineering teams on verification strategies and software quality.
- Develop validation solutions for safety-critical and mission-critical aerospace software.
- Build AI-assisted engineering and intelligent automation workflows for test generation, failure triage, log analysis, debugging, and workflow orchestration.
- Document test frameworks, automation workflows, CI/CD infrastructure, and validation procedures.
- Support release qualification and traceability between requirements, tests, and verification results.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building scalable automation frameworks or developer tooling in Python.
- At least 5 years of experience with package management, dependency management, and build systems using tools such as conan, pip, setuptools, poetry, and nix or similar.
- At least 5 years of experience building automated log collection, analytics, reporting, and failure-triage tooling.
- Strong understanding of asynchronous and concurrent programming in Python.
- Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI, YAML, and shell scripting.
- Experience testing 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.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Preferred experience integrating Python with native C/C++ libraries and applications through bindings, wrappers, subprocess interfaces, or interoperability tooling.
- Preferred proficiency with Go and/or TypeScript, experience with C++ development or testing, and experience in aerospace, robotics, autonomy, safety-critical software, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, or embedded system testing.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employees receive pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.
- Temporary employees receive pay within the listed range and a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
- Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.
About Shield AI
Shield AI builds autonomous systems for military and national security customers, combining its Hivemind autonomy software with V-BAT and X-BAT unmanned aircraft and Aechelon simulation technologies. The privately held company sells hardware, software, and related services to U.S. and allied defense agencies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Diego, it operates across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, and its technology is used in operational deployments.