Senior Engineer, Test (R3852)
Shield AI
San Diego, CA, USA · New York, USA · San Diego, CA, USA
Posted on Sep 13, 2025
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With offices in San Diego, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Boston, Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kyiv (Ukraine), and Melbourne (Australia), Shield AI’s technology actively supports U.S. and allied operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X and Instagram.
Job Description:
Join Shield AI’s Quality team as a Senior Software Quality Engineer and become part of a talented group shaping the future of robotics and autonomy. The Quality team is a core component of the Hivemind team, responsible for developing Shield AI’s critical robotics ecosystem. This platform integrates with various teams to enable cutting-edge autonomy solutions.
What you'll do:
- Design and develop automated tests to scalably and reliably validate HMSDK quality
- Address quality needs focused on API coverage, SW integration and Flight Testing
- Address common software code quality issues by reproducing real world flight scenarios
- Make frameworks and tooling available to rapidly retest various features real world scenarios
- Interface with peer integration and test teams to implement complementary tools, tests, share and best-practices.
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior team members.
- Maintain standard operating procedure and process documentation
- Participate in continuous improvement
- Review flight data for triaging and debugging product issues
Required qualifications:
- Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 4 years and a Master’s degree; or 2 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.
- Proficiency in software quality best practices, automation, programming in C++, Python.
- Experience with field testing
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions.
- Demonstrated ability in designing, communicating, and managing test cases, bugs and reporting.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of collaborating effectively across various teams and presenting to customers or technical leadership.
Preferred qualifications:
- Utilizing GenAI tools to scale product quality.
- Experience with C++14, C++17, TypeScript, JSON, DSL.
- Experience with ROS.
- Proficiency with simulation tools and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing environments.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with networking, operating-systems, and radio communications.
- Part 107 FAA license to operate drones for commercial use
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Full-time regular employee offer package:
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary employee offer package:
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.
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