About the position
Shield AI is a venture-backed defense technology company founded in 2015, dedicated to protecting service members and civilians with intelligent, autonomous systems. The Hivemind Product Division is seeking a Staff Engineer for Integration and Test to join their team in San Diego. This role involves developing state-of-the-art AI and robotics products, ensuring the highest level of quality, reliability, and performance in the Hivemind ecosystem. The position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to validate and verify the software ecosystem, which includes autonomy behaviors, ground-control systems, and embedded devices. The ideal candidate will be a motivated expert in software testing and integration, capable of designing innovative solutions for automation testing and data analysis.
Responsibilities
- Become a super-user of the AI software product and automate multi-agent scenarios.
- Collaborate with developer teams to design test plans for new autonomy algorithms and applications.
- Design and implement tests to cover all performance aspects of product capabilities.
- Architect innovative automation frameworks to enhance testing efficiency.
- Work with integration engineers to implement test solutions on robotic hardware platforms.
- Determine testing strategies and optimize testing design on CI.
- Create analyzer code for automated analysis of test data and report bugs to developers.
- Ensure test coverage of all product and engineering requirements.
Requirements
- Minimum of 7 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree in CS, Comp Eng, Robotics, or a related field; or 6 years with a master's degree; or 4 years with a PhD.
- Proficiency in programming languages including Python or C++.
- Experience with autonomous systems or server applications or middleware.
- Demonstrated experience in designing, managing test cases, and reporting bugs.
- Proficiency with simulation tools and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing environments.
- Strong expertise with CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions.
- Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration across teams.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience building complex systems with a strong understanding of software architecture and design principles.
- Experience with hardware or embedded systems.
- Expert knowledge of Python.
- Experience with ROS.
- Experience with white box testing.
- Familiarity with networking, operating systems, and radio communications.
- Experience designing automated tooling for testing GUI applications.
- Experience designing automated tooling for testing server applications.
Benefits
- Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
- Temporary benefits package after 60 days of employment
