Shield AI
Senior Engineer, Automated Test (R4461)
$114K–$171K
San Diego, California · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 14, 2025
- Experience
- 5+ years in each of the three stated experience areas; no overall alternative stated.
About the job
Builds automated testing frameworks and CI/CD infrastructure to verify Shield AI’s autonomy software across distributed, simulated, and hardware-in-the-loop environments, including AI-assisted engineering workflows.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain automated test frameworks, validation tools, and scalable CI/CD pipelines for autonomy, APIs, and operator interfaces.
- Build Python automation and test infrastructure for reporting, failure triage, and verification across software and hardware environments.
- Develop AI-assisted workflows for test generation, log and test analysis, debugging, and software verification.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building scalable automation frameworks and/or developer tooling in Python.
- 5+ years with package, dependency, and build systems such as conan, pip, setuptools, poetry, nix, or similar.
- 5+ years building tools for automated log collection, analytics, reporting, and failure triage.
- Experience with GitLab CI, YAML, shell scripting, distributed-system testing, and Linux-based development environments.
Nice to have
- Python interoperability with native C/C++ libraries; Go and/or TypeScript; or C++ development/testing.
- Experience in aerospace, robotics, autonomy, safety-critical software, simulation, HIL, or embedded testing.
Pay
USD 114,266–171,400 per-year-salary (base salary)
Tools
Python, conan, pip, setuptools, poetry, nix, GitLab CI, YAML
AI focus
Develop and integrate AI-assisted engineering workflows and intelligent automation for test generation, log and test analysis, failure triage, debugging, and developer productivity, using coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex.
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