# Engineer II, Automated Test (R6288) at Shield AI

- Company: Shield AI
- What the company does: Autonomy for the world. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://shield.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Diego, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $110K to $160K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-17
- Apply by: 2026-12-01
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/3e90ea11-9f23-45e3-b42e-e9b0bd4bdf36?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shield-ai-engineer-ii-automated-test-r6288/

## About the role

The Hivemind Software Engineering Integration and Test team is seeking an Automated Test Engineer to design, develop, and scale advanced automated testing and CI/CD infrastructure for our next-generation autonomy platform. You will help develop test frameworks that enable this software ecosystem to create, test and deploy resilient autonomy capabilities for unmanned aircraft and robotic platforms operating in complex, contested, and GPS-denied environments. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 2+ years of experience building scalable, maintainable automation frameworks and/or developer tooling in Python
- 2+ years of experience working with package management, dependency management, and build systems using tools such as conan, pip, setuptools, poetry, and nix or similar
- 2+ years of experience building tooling for automated log collection, analytics, reporting, and failure triage
- Strong understanding of asynchronous and concurrent programming in Python for scalable automation and parallel test execution
- Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, YAML, and shell scripting
- Experience with automated testing of distributed systems, backend services, APIs, and web-based UIs

Tags: Quality

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shield-ai-engineer-ii-automated-test-r6288/