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Salary: USD 150,000 - 195,000 / annual
Firestorm is building expeditionary defense manufacturing and autonomous systems, focusing on mission-adaptable aerial systems and deployable microfactories. The company develops modular unmanned aircraft designed to adapt across missions, payloads, and deployment environments.
As a Senior Test Automation Engineer, you will own the test infrastructure and automation strategy for validating aircraft software across simulation and hardware environments. This is a software engineering role with a focus on test automation, requiring you to build the frameworks, tools, and infrastructure that enable rapid, repeatable validation of complex autonomous systems.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and implementing scenario-based automated tests for aircraft capabilities, interfaces, failure modes, and recovery behaviors
- Developing comprehensive test frameworks, harnesses, and services for execution across SIL (Software-in-the-Loop), HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop), and VIL (Vehicle-in-the-Loop) environments
- Converting release test plans into repeatable automated campaigns with clear reporting and failure diagnostics
- Building test orchestration systems to improve configuration, execution, data collection, analysis, and reporting
- Investigating integration failures across aircraft software, simulation, networking, hardware, and test infrastructure
- Collaborating with software and systems engineers to identify test coverage gaps and shift testing earlier in development
- Continuously improving the test platform to make automation easier to develop, maintain, and scale
Required qualifications: 5+ years of software engineering, test automation, integration, or related experience; strong programming skills in Python, C++, or similar languages; experience building automated test frameworks and infrastructure; proven ability testing complex integrated software systems; hands-on experience with SIL/HIL/VIL or hardware-connected test environments; strong debugging across software, interfaces, networking, and hardware; experience automating test execution, data collection, and reporting; and integration of automated testing into CI/CD workflows.
Preferred experience includes autonomous systems, robotics, aircraft, or vehicle testing; scenario-based testing or fault injection; distributed test execution systems; telemetry or time-series data analysis; and aerospace, defense, UAS, or safety-critical software backgrounds.
U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance required. Export control compliance mandated per ITAR/EAR regulations.
