Staff Automation Test Engineer - Autonomy & MLOps

Shield; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 282,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI seeks a Staff Automated Test Engineer to lead automated verification across its Hivemind autonomy platform and related systems. You will define test architecture, validation infrastructure, ML quality systems, and CI/CD pipelines enabling testing and deployment of autonomous aircraft and robotic platforms in complex environments.

You will collaborate across production flight code, machine learning models, simulation environments, ground-control applications, telemetry pipelines, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, test infra, or MLOps with impact.
• 5+ years building scalable automation frameworks in Python.
• Experience designing CI/CD and ML workflow infrastructure.
• Experience validating ML systems across data, training, deployment, and monitoring.
• Familiarity with Linux-based development environments.

Responsibilities

• Own automated testing strategy and roadmap for Hivemind ecosystem.
• Build scalable test frameworks for autonomy software and APIs.
• Lead cross-functional testing including E2E across simulators and hardware.
• Develop ML validation pipelines covering data quality and model accuracy.
• Create observability, logging, and failure-triage capabilities.

Skills

Python automation

Distributed systems testing

Technical leadership

MLOps quality

Linux development

Tools

Kubernetes

Conan

Pip

Setuptools

Poetry

Nix

NVIDIA Nsight

Job description

Shield AI seeks a Staff Automated Test Engineer to lead automated verification across its Hivemind autonomy platform and related systems. You will define test architecture, validation infrastructure, ML quality systems, and CI/CD pipelines enabling testing and deployment of autonomous aircraft and robotic platforms in complex environments.

You will collaborate across production flight code, machine learning models, simulation environments, ground-control applications, telemetry pipelines, and