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Senior Software Test and Automation Engineer (R4472)

San Diego, California💼 Full-time🗓 2026-01-31 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and develop automated test infrastructure, validation tooling, and frameworks to ensure software quality, reliability, and mission readiness for Hivemind autonomy software across simulation, SIL, HIL, and VIL environments.

Role type

Senior Software Test & Automation Engineer

Builds

Scalable automated test frameworks, validation environments, and data-driven readiness assessments

Domain

Defense technology / Autonomous systems / Software verification and validation

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Python, automated test framework design, verification and validation (V&V) strategies, CI/CD integration, root cause analysis, software quality metrics, test infrastructure development, regression testing, integration testing, performance testing

Technologies

Python, CI/CD

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks, validation tooling, and test infrastructure supporting autonomy software; Develop and execute verification and validation strategies across simulation, SIL, HIL, VIL, and representative system environments; Build automated regression, integration, functional, and performance test suites; Develop Python-based automation, test harnesses, and analysis tools; Analyze test results, identify software defects and integration issues, and support cross-functional root cause investigations; Develop software quality metrics, dashboards, and readiness assessments; Integrate automated testing into CI/CD workflows; Collaborate with autonomy software, systems engineering, flight test, and integration teams to define validation strategies and readiness criteria

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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