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Senior Engineer, Flight Test (R5371)

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

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Company

Shield AI

Location

San Diego, California

Status

Open

Posted

2026-07-21T00:49:38.93+00:00

Shield AI, a defense-tech company, is hiring a senior flight test engineer for its Hivemind Quality team, on-site in San Diego. The job is to write and carry out flight test strategies that check autonomous behaviors, software integrations and end-to-end system performance, using simulation, hardware-in-the-loop rigs and live flight. The engineer sets test readiness, directs test conduct, manages risk and works with software, hardware and product teams to reproduce mission scenarios. The posting asks for experience in autonomy development and system validation, and states no salary.