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title: Senior Staff Engineer, Systems Test (R5430)
description: Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. As a Software Systems Test Engineer, you will be pivotal in driving integration testing of our full aircraft software system, integrating our autonomy, flight controller, and GCS software to qualify an intelligent, robust aircraft system. Responsibilities: Generate detailed mission test scenarios that mimic real-world conditions to validate the performance of autonomy and flight control software. Participate in design reviews for new features and design detailed test plans based on their requirements. Conduct and manage system verification and validation events, culminating in verified flight readiness. Write test analyzers in Python to report and benchmark performance and qualification metrics of the system. Produce test coverage and release-readiness reports by aggregating test cases, results, and quality requirements. Recommend improvements to our simulation models and fault injection so that we can keep pushing the capabilities of our test suite before proceeding to flight. Required qualifications: 10+ years of work experience in testing complex integrated software systems. Demonstrated expertise & experience in test automation, minimally writing software to automate testing, preferably leveraging simulation for automated integration testing. Strong experience with the software product development lifecycle, ideally for autonomy or vehicle systems. Great understanding of system architecture, requirement derivation, and test planning across the V-model. Experience with automating test cases in an existing test framework. Experience producing high-quality technical documentation, including test plans, quality-assurance reports, and operational procedures. Proven track record of successfully shipping products, showcasing the ability to navigate through development cycles, overcome obstacles, and deliver high-quality solutions to …
date posted: 2026-08-01T02:07:34.696Z
valid through: 2026-09-30T02:07:34.696Z
direct apply: false
occupational category: Engineering
industry: Technology
skills: test automation
skills: software development lifecycle
skills: system architecture
skills: test planning
skills: Python
skills: technical documentation
skills: autonomous systems
skills: simulation software
skills: hardware emulation
skills: build test automation
skills: C++
hiring organization: Shield AI
job location: Place
  address: PostalAddress
    address locality: Dallas
    address region: Texas
    address country: US
employment type: FULL_TIME
base salary: MonetaryAmount
  currency: GBP
  value: QuantitativeValue
    min value: 180000
    max value: 270000
    unit text: YEAR