Senior Integration & Verification Engineer — AI Testing

Firestorm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) retirement savings plan

Equity grants for new hires

Unlimited PTO

Holiday calendar with November/Dec休

Parental Leave

Lifestyle Spending Account

FSA/DCFSA/HSA

Job summary

Firestorm in San Diego, CA seeks a senior integration and verification leader to own test strategy across multiple hardware/software/UAS platforms. You will drive evidence quality, escalation of defects, and coordination with chief engineers to ensure readiness for major milestones.

You will build and maintain test infrastructure, including SIL/HIL, automation, and field-test practices, while leading distributed teams and delivering auditable readiness evidence.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead risk-based system integration, verification, and validation planning across 2–3 active product lines.
• Translate system requirements, interfaces, failure modes into executable test coverage and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate integration sequencing, test readiness, qualification evidence, and verification traceability.
• Build or strengthen SIL/HIL, automated regression, bench/lab integration, instrumentation, data capture, and field/flight-test practices.
• Establish repeatable test procedures, defect tracking, reproducibility standards, and configuration control.
• Lead test engineering personnel and coordinate distributed contributors.

Job description

Firestorm in San Diego, CA seeks a senior integration and verification leader to own test strategy across multiple hardware/software/UAS platforms. You will drive evidence quality, escalation of defects, and coordination with chief engineers to ensure readiness for major milestones.

You will build and maintain test infrastructure, including SIL/HIL, automation, and field-test practices, while leading distributed teams and delivering auditable readiness evidence.