Test Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 10+ years in integration, test engineering, verification/validation, or systems test for complex hardware/software products.
• Experience leading test engineers or multidisciplinary integration/test teams and building test capability.
• Demonstrated ownership of test strategy and evidence for integrated systems through field or operational deployment.
• Practical knowledge of HIL/SIL, instrumentation, automation, test design, requirements traceability, defect management, and root-cause analysis.
• Ability to provide objective technical findings and constructively escalate verification gaps to engineering leadership.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or otherwise eligible to obtain required authorizations under U.S. export-control regulations.

Nice To Haves

• UAS, aerospace, autonomy, embedded systems, defense, or robotics verification experience.
• Experience with ground/flight testing, qualification, safety-critical interfaces, and operationally representative environments.
• Experience building test infrastructure at a startup.
• Familiarity with FMEA, fault trees, environmental/EMI qualification, and manufacturing acceptance testing.
• Local to San Diego or open to relocating.

Responsibilities

• Lead risk-based system integration, verification, and validation planning across 2–3 active product lines.
• Translate system requirements, critical interfaces, failure modes, and operational scenarios into executable test coverage and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate integration sequencing, test readiness, qualification evidence, and verification traceability with Chief Engineers and functional teams.
• Build or strengthen SIL/HIL, automated regression, bench/lab integration, instrumentation, data capture, and representative field or flight-test practices as appropriate.
• Establish repeatable test procedures, defect tracking, reproducibility standards, and configuration control for test articles and environments.
• Lead test engineering personnel and coordinate distributed functional test contributors without duplicating existing testing teams.
• Report objective verification results, open anomalies, residual risks, and coverage gaps; escalate unresolved concerns independently of schedule pressure.
• Drive failure analysis, root-cause investigation, corrective-action verification, and prevention of recurring integration escapes.
• Develop metrics for late-found defects, verification coverage, regression effectiveness, test reliability, and time to close critical anomalies.
• Map test assets, coverage gaps, recurring failures, and critical integration dependencies during the first 30 days.
• Develop a risk-based verification plan for each product and agree on a test readiness and evidence standard within 90 days.
• Improve integration test repeatability, critical-interface coverage, and defect diagnosis speed within six months.
• Reduce late-stage defects and recurring failures and provide objective, auditable readiness evidence for major milestones within 12 months.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan.
• Equity grants for new hires.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Generous company holiday calendar, including a holiday hiatus in November and December.
• Generous parental leave.
• Lifestyle Spending Account.
• FSA, DCFSA, and HSA.
• Hospital indemnity insurance.
• Critical illness insurance.
• Accident insurance.
• Basic life/AD&D and short-term and long-term disability insurance, 100% covered by Firestorm.
• Option to purchase additional life insurance for the employee and family.
• Free 24/7 mental health resources, including therapy.
• Free legal and financial support.
• Relocation assistance may be included in the offer package where appropriate.
• Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for career growth.