Drimva

Shield AI

Staff Engineer, Test Automation (R5792)

$157K–$236K

San Diego, California +1 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 26, 2026

Location
San Diego, California
San Mateo, California
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 the Hivemind autonomy software ecosystem, including aircraft and robotic platforms.

What you'll do

  • Own test automation strategy and architecture; build scalable frameworks and lead verification across software, simulation, edge-compute, and hardware-in-the-loop environments.
  • Build ML validation, CI/CD, and continuous-training workflows, including dataset and model traceability, automated evaluation, and performance monitoring.
  • Lead cross-functional quality initiatives and develop Python automation, test harnesses, observability, 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 machine learning systems across the data, training, evaluation, packaging, deployment, and monitoring lifecycle.
  • Experience testing GPU workloads and Kubernetes environments, plus strong system-design and distributed-systems testing experience.

Nice to have

  • Experience with ML platforms such as MLflow, Kubeflow, Weights & Biases, SageMaker, or Vertex AI.
  • Experience in aerospace, robotics, autonomy, embedded systems, or safety-critical software.

Pay

USD 157,000–235,800 per-year-salary (base salary)

Tools

Python, Kubernetes, Conan, pip, setuptools, Poetry, Nix, MLflow

AI focus

Validates machine-learning systems through their lifecycle, including data quality, training reproducibility, model performance, robustness, deployment, and monitoring. Develops AI-assisted workflows using coding agents and LLM-based tools for test generation, log analysis, debugging, and failure triage.

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