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Staff Engineer, Test Automation - San Mateo (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 Mateo, California

Status

Open

Posted

2026-10-21T21:43:26.294+00:00

Shield AI is hiring a staff automated test engineer for the Hivemind Software Engineering Integration and Test team in San Mateo, California. The role sets test architecture and verification standards for an autonomy platform used on unmanned aircraft and robotic platforms, covering flight code, machine learning models, simulation, ground control software, telemetry pipelines and hardware-in-the-loop systems. The posting asks for deep Python automation and distributed-systems testing experience, technical leadership, and a record of validating machine learning systems across data, training, evaluation, deployment and monitoring. On-site, full-time.