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)

Equity

Unlimited PTO

Holiday calendar

Parental Leave

Lifestyle Spending Account

HSA

Death and disability coverage

Job summary

Firestorm is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Software Test & Automation for aircraft software. You will own end-to-end testing, release planning, and reporting while expanding automated coverage across SIL, HIL, and VIL environments.

You will grow the team, define the test capability roadmap, and collaborate with autonomy, embedded software, and flight test teams to ensure high-quality releases for mission-critical systems.

Qualifications

• 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 test planning, coverage, defect management, and release reporting experience.
• 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/exit criteria, defect disposition, and release reporting.
• Drive end-to-end integration testing — Validate aircraft behaviors across SIL, HIL, VIL, and flight environments.
• Scale test automation — Increase automated coverage and reduce manual effort to qualify releases.
• Own the test capability roadmap — Identify gaps in environments, tooling, instrumentation, and automation.
• Build reliable test infrastructure — Improve systems to configure, execute, observe, and report automated testing.
• Partner with aircraft software teams — Work across autonomy, embedded software, controls, systems, simulation, and flight test to close gaps.
• Grow the team — Hire and develop engineers with strong software, systems, and test fundamentals.

Skills

Test automation

Release testing

CI/CD

Team leadership

Cross-functional teams

SIL/HIL/VIL

Job description

Firestorm is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Software Test & Automation for aircraft software. You will own end-to-end testing, release planning, and reporting while expanding automated coverage across SIL, HIL, and VIL environments.

You will grow the team, define the test capability roadmap, and collaborate with autonomy, embedded software, and flight test teams to ensure high-quality releases for mission-critical systems.