Engineering Manager, Software Test & Automation

Firestorm•San Diego, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Firestorm builds modular autonomous aircraft designed to adapt across missions, payloads, and deployment environments. As those capabilities evolve, the software integration and test system has to keep pace. We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead Software Test & Automation for aircraft software. The team owns end-to-end software integration testing, release test planning and reporting, automated test execution, and the SIL, HIL, and VIL environments used to validate software before flight. You will grow the team, own how aircraft software is tested for release, and build the test capability needed to increase coverage while keeping release cycles fast.

Requirements

8+ years of software, systems, integration, or test engineering experience
3+ years leading engineering teams
Experience owning integration and release testing for complex software-intensive systems
Strong experience with test planning, coverage, defect management, and release reporting
Experience with SIL, HIL, VIL, simulation, or similar integrated test environments
Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience developing test automation or test infrastructure
Experience debugging failures across software, interfaces, networks, hardware, and system boundaries
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional test efforts and drive issues to closure
Strong written and verbal communication

Nice To Haves

Experience testing autonomous systems, robotics, aircraft, or vehicles
Experience with scenario-based system testing and fault injection
Experience scaling automated test execution through CI/CD
Experience supporting flight software releases and flight test
Aerospace, defense, UAS, or safety-critical software experience

Responsibilities

Lead Software Test & Automation — Own the team responsible for aircraft software integration and release testing.
Own release testing — Define test plans, coverage, entry and exit criteria, defect disposition, and release reporting.
Drive end-to-end integration testing — Validate aircraft behaviors and interfaces across SIL, HIL, VIL, and flight-representative environments.
Scale test automation — Increase automated coverage and reduce the time and manual effort required to qualify software releases.
Own the test capability roadmap — Identify gaps in environments, tooling, instrumentation, and automation and drive the right solutions.
Build reliable test infrastructure — Improve the systems used to configure, execute, observe, and report automated testing.
Partner with aircraft software teams — Work across autonomy, embedded software, controls, GCS, systems, simulation, and flight test to identify risk and close integration gaps.
Grow the team — Hire and develop engineers with strong software, systems, and test fundamentals.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and visions plans
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
Equity grants for new hires
Unlimited PTO
Extremely generous company holiday calendar, including a holiday hiatus in July & December.
Generous Parental Leave
Lifestyle Spending Account
FSA
DCFSA
HSA
Hospital Indemnity insurance
Critical Illness insurance
Accident insurance
Basic Life/AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, 100% covered by Firestorm.
Option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your family.
Mental Health Resources: We provide free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy and more.
Additional work-life services, such as free legal and financial support, are available to you as well.
Relocation assistance is available and may be included in the offer package where appropriate.