Shield AI
Staff Engineer, Test Automation (R5792)
San Diego, California · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- Typically 8+ years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of experience and demonstrated impact; 5+ years building scalable automation frameworks or developer tooling in Python.
About the job
Provides technical leadership for automated testing, verification, and MLOps quality across Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy software ecosystem, including aircraft and robotic platforms.
What you'll do
- Set the strategy and architecture for automated testing, verification, and MLOps quality; build scalable test frameworks and infrastructure.
- Lead functional through end-to-end testing across simulation, edge compute, software-in-the-loop, and hardware-in-the-loop environments; develop automated ML validation and CI/CD workflows.
- Create scenario-based autonomy validation, observability, and Python automation; guide cross-functional teams and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
What they ask for
- Typically 8+ years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of experience and demonstrated impact; 5+ years building scalable automation frameworks or developer tooling in Python.
- Demonstrated success designing test, CI/CD, or MLOps infrastructure used across multiple engineering teams; experience validating ML systems across their lifecycle.
- Experience with GPU workloads and Kubernetes environments, integrated hardware/software systems, distributed systems, and asynchronous or concurrent Python.
- Experience with observability and root-cause analysis, package/dependency management and reproducible environments; Linux-based development experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with ML platforms or GPU orchestration/profiling tools, or NVIDIA GPU infrastructure.
- Experience in autonomy, aerospace, robotics, embedded or safety-critical systems; familiarity with verification standards such as DO-178C and MIL-STD-882.
Tools
Python, Kubernetes, Conan, pip, setuptools, Poetry, Nix, Linux
AI focus
Validates machine learning systems across data, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring, and develops AI-assisted engineering workflows using coding agents and LLM-based tools for test generation, log analysis, debugging, and failure triage.
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