Senior Engineer, Automated Test; R4461

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 and X-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia‑Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

The Hivemind Software Engineering Integration and Test team is seeking a Senior Automated Test Engineer to design, develop, and scale advanced automated testing and CI/CD infrastructure for our next‑generation autonomy platform. You will help develop test frameworks that enable this software ecosystem to create, test and deploy resilient autonomy capabilities for unmanned aircraft and robotic platforms operating in complex, contested, and GPS‑denied environments.

You will work with a robust suite of autonomy and mission software components, including production flight code, simulation and synthetic environment tooling, mission planning and orchestration systems, operator‑facing Ground Control Station (GCS) applications, telemetry and data pipelines, and cloud‑native developer infrastructure.

In this role, you will help ensure the reliability, scalability, and quality of the Hivemind ecosystem through advanced automation, validation infrastructure, and AI‑assisted engineering workflows. You will develop automated test frameworks, CI/CD systems, and verification tooling that support distributed autonomy software spanning onboard edge compute, APIs, web‑based operator interfaces, simulation environments, and hardware‑in‑the‑loop systems. Working closely with software, autonomy, simulation, and systems engineering teams, you will contribute to a high‑assurance development environment focused on mission‑critical reliability, rapid iteration, and engineering excellence.

The ideal candidate has strong experience in Python‑based automation, distributed systems testing, developer tooling, and modern CI/CD practices, along with an interest in autonomy, aerospace, robotics, or safety‑critical software systems. Experience leveraging AI‑assisted development and intelligent automation tools to accelerate testing, debugging, analytics, and developer productivity is highly valued.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for Autonomy and UI applications.
• Develop scalable automated test infrastructure for functional, integration, regression, system, and end‑to‑end testing across distributed software and hardware environments.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Git Lab using YAML configurations and shell scripting to support automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Build workflow automation tools and utilities in Python to improve test execution efficiency, reporting, environment setup, and developer productivity.
• Develop and maintain UI and API test automation using Go and Type Script for modern web‑based operator interfaces and mission control applications.
• Integrate automated testing into continuous integration environments to support rapid software delivery and high reliability standards.
• Collaborate closely with software, autonomy, simulation, and systems engineering teams to define verification strategies and improve software quality throughout the development lifecycle.
• Develop automated validation solutions for safety‑critical and mission‑critical aerospace software systems.
• Create test harnesses, simulators, stubs, and mocks to support automated verification in both simulated and hardware‑in‑the‑loop (HIL) environments.
• Analyze test results, troubleshoot failures, and work with development teams to isolate root causes and improve system reliability.
• Improve test coverage, execution speed, maintainability, and observability of automated test systems.
• Contribute to software quality standards, coding best practices, and automation architecture decisions.
• Maintain clear technical documentation for test frameworks, automation workflows, CI/CD infrastructure, and validation procedures.
• Support release qualification activities…