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Staff Engineer, Test Automation (R5792)

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

Company

Shield AI

Location

San Diego, California

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-26T20:48:27.803+00:00

Shield AI's Hivemind Software Engineering Integration and Test team needs a Staff Automated Test Engineer to lead automated verification for its autonomy platform. The person will define test architecture, validation infrastructure, MLOps quality systems and CI/CD pipelines, working across flight code, ML models, simulation, ground control applications, telemetry pipelines and hardware-in-the-loop rigs. The posting seeks deep Python automation and distributed-systems testing experience plus technical leadership, and experience validating machine learning systems across the data, training, evaluation, deployment and monitoring lifecycle. Onsite in San Diego.