# Senior Engineer, Flight Test (R5371)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 110,000-170,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Engineer, Flight Test to join the Hivemind Quality team. The successful candidate will develop and execute comprehensive flight test strategies that validate autonomous behaviors, software integrations, and end-to-end system performance.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and execute flight test plans that validate new autonomy capabilities, software integrations, and system performance in real-world flight environments.

- Design and execute test scenarios that reproduce operational customer workflows and mission conditions to identify software defects, integration issues, and performance limitations.

- Build analysis tools and validation workflows that improve test coverage, accelerate regression testing, and reduce time to identify issues.

- Review flight logs, telemetry, rosbags, and system data to triage issues, perform root-cause analysis, and collaborate with engineering teams to drive resolution.

- Work closely with middleware, autonomy, and integration teams to develop complementary test strategies, share tooling, and improve overall product quality.

- Provide technical guidance to junior engineers, establish testing standards, and help improve engineering processes across the organization.

- Maintain standard operating procedures, participate in flight operations, and contribute to the continuous improvement of testing processes and operational readiness.

Requirements:

- Minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 4 years and a Master's degree; or equivalent work experience.

- Proficiency in software quality engineering, test automation, and programming with Python and C++.

- Experience planning and executing field or flight testing for robotics, autonomous systems, or complex software platforms.

- Experience developing automated test tooling, validation frameworks, or data analysis tools.

- Demonstrated experience designing, documenting, executing, and tracking test plans, test cases, and software defects.

- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze flight logs, telemetry, and system behavior to identify root causes.

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across software, hardware, product, and test organizations.

- FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate (or the ability to obtain one within a reasonable timeframe).

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience using GenAI tools to improve engineering productivity or software quality.

- Experience with C++14/C++17, TypeScript, JSON, and modern software development practices.

- Experience with ROS.

- Proficiency with simulation tools and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing environments.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.

- Familiarity with networking, Linux operating systems, and radio communications.

- Experience testing autonomous aerial systems or other robotic platforms.

- Experience analyzing flight telemetry, sensor data, and autonomy behaviors.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- C++
- software quality engineering
- test automation
- flight testing
- autonomous systems
- robotics

### Nice to have
- GenAI
- C++14/C++17
- TypeScript
- JSON
- ROS
- simulation tools
- HIL testing
- CI/CD pipelines

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