# Systems Test Engineer

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Bangalore
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: International Office Entity
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.

The Hivemind Solutions Test Department is seeking a Senior Test Engineer (Software & Simulation Focus) to join our Bangalore-based team. You'll lead simulation-driven testing, automation, and software quality efforts for Hivemind, building and executing test frameworks that ensure our autonomy software performs reliably across simulated and real-world mission environments.

## Responsibilities:

- Develop automated regression, integration, and system-level tests to ensure Hivemind software quality and stability across releases.

- Identify, reproduce, and diagnose software issues,collaborating closely with development teams to drive fixes and improvements.

- Create and execute test plans and documentation for autonomy software in simulated environments, ensuring mission and safety requirements are met.

- Design, implement, and maintain simulation-based test frameworks to validate Hivemind autonomy behavior and performance.

- Build tools and utilities in Python to automate testing, data processing, and analysis workflows.

- Develop test harnesses and data validation tools for Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) / Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) / Vehicle-in-the-Loop (VIL) and simulation environments.

- Contribute to the definition of testing methodologies, metrics, and performance benchmarks for autonomy software validation.

- Support the scaling and reliability of simulation infrastructure used for large-scale software validation.

- Maintain detailed and accurate test documentation, ensuring traceability and knowledge sharing across teams.

- Work with developers to integrate test coverage directly into the development pipeline (CI/CD).

## Required qualifications:

- Typically requires a minimum of 3-5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 2-4 years and a Master’s degree; or 2 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.

- Proficiency in Python.

- Experience in robotics, small UAS, or related hands-on engineering projects.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.

- Passionate about intelligent aircraft systems.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional software, hardware, and mechanical engineering teams.

- Adaptability and a willingness to learn new technologies and methodologies quickly in a fast-paced environment.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- robotics
- small UAS
- analytical skills
- problem-solving skills
- debugging skills

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