Firestorm Labs
Engineering Manager, Software Test & Automation
$175K–$220K
San Diego, United States · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software, systems, integration, or test engineering experience; 3+ years leading engineering teams.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. citizenship is required, along with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance. Export-control eligibility also requires U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residency, protected individual status, or other eligibility to obtain required authorizations.
About the job
Leads the team and roadmap for aircraft software integration and release testing, automation, and SIL, HIL, and VIL validation environments.
What you'll do
- Own release test plans, coverage, criteria, defect disposition, and reporting.
- Scale automated end-to-end testing across integrated test environments and improve test infrastructure.
- Partner with aircraft software teams, grow the team, and drive integration risks and issues to resolution.
What they ask for
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
- Experience owning integration and release testing for complex software-intensive systems, including test planning, coverage, defect management, and release reporting.
- Experience with SIL, HIL, VIL, simulation, or similar integrated test environments; software engineering, test automation, or test infrastructure experience.
- Experience debugging failures across software, interfaces, networks, hardware, and system boundaries; ability to lead cross-functional test efforts and communicate effectively.
Nice to have
- Experience testing autonomous systems, robotics, aircraft, or vehicles; scenario-based system testing or fault injection.
- Experience scaling automated test execution through CI/CD, supporting flight software releases and flight test, or working in aerospace, defense, UAS, or safety-critical software.
Pay
$175,000 – $220,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
SIL, HIL, VIL, CI/CD
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