Engineering Manager - Automated Hardware Test Systems

Shield; Washington (District of Columbia); Presencial; USD 150.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

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Descripción de la vacante

Shield AI is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the X-BAT Hardware Test Software team. You will build and sustain automated production test stands for avionics and aircraft assemblies, guiding test frameworks, station-control software, data collection, and pass/fail evaluation.

You will partner with electrical and mechanical teams to translate requirements into reliable, scalable automated test coverage and ensure robust traceability and repeatability in production testing.

Formación

• 5+ years of software engineering, test automation, embedded systems, or related fields.
• 2+ years of direct people-management experience leading software, test, or hardware-integration engineers.
• Demonstrated experience building automated functional-test systems for complex hardware.
• Strong Python experience for automation, instrument control, data acquisition, and test orchestration.
• Experience with C++ or C in embedded or hardware-facing applications.
• Experience with Git, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, and release management.

Responsabilidades

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers supporting X-BAT avionics production test.
• Own the technical roadmap and execution for automated test stands, test frameworks, station software, and data systems.
• Build scalable Python-based software for test sequencing, instrument control, data collection, and pass/fail reporting.
• Guide software architecture, code quality, configuration management, CI/CD, and documentation.
• Collaborate with electrical engineers to translate avionics interfaces into automated test coverage.
• Coordinate with mechanical engineers to ensure fixtures and workflows support reliable production testing.
• Work with FPGA and embedded software teams to validate FPGA-enabled avionics hardware.
• Improve test coverage, station uptime, throughput, and traceability.
• Establish metrics for regression health, station reliability, and retest rates.
• Support root-cause analysis across hardware, software, and interfaces.

Conocimientos

Python

C++

Embedded systems

Test automation

Software engineering

Leadership

FPGA knowledge

Git

CI/CD

Herramientas

Git

CI/CD

FPGA

Descripción del empleo

Shield AI is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the X-BAT Hardware Test Software team. You will build and sustain automated production test stands for avionics and aircraft assemblies, guiding test frameworks, station-control software, data collection, and pass/fail evaluation.

You will partner with electrical and mechanical teams to translate requirements into reliable, scalable automated test coverage and ensure robust traceability and repeatability in production testing.