Shield AI
Staff Engineer, Test Automation - San Mateo (R5792)
$188K–$282K
San Mateo, California · On-site · 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 Python automation frameworks or developer tooling.
About the job
Provides technical leadership for automated testing, verification, and MLOps quality across the Hivemind autonomy software ecosystem, including its ML models, distributed systems, and hardware/software environments.
What you'll do
- Own test automation strategy, architecture, and roadmap; build scalable frameworks and verification infrastructure.
- Lead testing across simulation, edge computing, software-in-the-loop, and hardware-in-the-loop environments, including automated ML validation.
- Establish CI/CD and continuous-training workflows, observability, and AI-assisted engineering processes for test generation and failure triage.
What they ask for
- 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 the data, training, evaluation, packaging, deployment, and monitoring lifecycle.
- Experience testing GPU-accelerated workloads and multi-tenant Kubernetes environments.
Nice to have
- Experience with ML platforms such as MLflow, Kubeflow, Weights & Biases, SageMaker, or Vertex AI.
- Aerospace, robotics, autonomy, embedded systems, or safety-critical software experience.
Pay
USD 188,000–282,000 per-year-salary; base salary
Tools
Python, Kubernetes, Linux, Conan, pip, setuptools, Poetry, Nix
AI focus
Validates machine-learning systems across their lifecycle and develops AI-assisted workflows using coding agents and LLM-based tools for test generation, log analysis, debugging, and failure triage.
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