Engineering Manager - Software Test & Automation (Aircraft)

Firestorm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401(k) Retirement

Equity grants

Unlimited PTO

Parental Leave

Life Insurance

Mental Health Resources

Job summary

Firestorm in San Diego, CA is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead Software Test & Automation for aircraft software. You will grow the team, own how software is tested for release, and build the test capability needed to increase coverage while keeping release cycles fast.

This role requires documenting test plans, driving SIL, HIL, and VIL integration testing across flight-representative environments, and partnering with autonomy, embedded software, and flight test teams to close gaps.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
• 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.

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.

Skills

Test automation

Team leadership

Release testing

CI/CD

Test planning

Defect management

Cross-functional collaboration

Software testing

Automation tooling

SIL/HIL/VIL

Job description

Firestorm in San Diego, CA is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead Software Test & Automation for aircraft software. You will grow the team, own how software is tested for release, and build the test capability needed to increase coverage while keeping release cycles fast.

This role requires documenting test plans, driving SIL, HIL, and VIL integration testing across flight-representative environments, and partnering with autonomy, embedded software, and flight test teams to close gaps.