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Staff Engineer, Test Automation - San Mateo (R5792)

Shield AI · San Mateo, California

Defenseonsitestaff$188k–$282k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead automated verification for Hivemind autonomy powering unmanned aircraft.
  • Validate autonomy for robotic platforms in contested, GPS-denied environments.
  • Work across flight code, simulation, mission planning and ground control apps.

Ideal candidate

Hands-on technical leader who thrives owning complex, cross-functional quality initiatives and building scalable verification systems for mission-critical autonomy protecting service members.

Requirements

  • Deep Python automation experience
  • Distributed-systems testing experience
  • Technical leadership of complex, cross-functional initiatives
  • Experience validating ML systems across data, training, evaluation, deployment and monitoring

Lab profile

About Shield AI

Venture-backed defense-tech company building intelligent autonomy systems to protect service members and civilians.

What they build

  • Hivemind autonomy software
  • V-BAT aircraft
  • X-BAT aircraft

Known for

  • AI autonomy
  • Unmanned aircraft engineering
  • Aerodynamics and aerostructures
  • Simulation and synthetic reality

Key facts

  • Venture-backed
  • Offices across U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific
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