# Staff Engineer, Test Automation (R5792) 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: Senior
- Location: San Diego, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-26
- Apply by: 2026-11-10
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/cc36d8ce-4afc-4d86-a4ad-8d5612b184d4
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shield-ai-staff-engineer-test-automation-r5792/

## About the role

The Hivemind Software Engineering Integration and Test team is seeking a Staff Automated Test Engineer to provide technical leadership for automated verification across our next-generation autonomy platform.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience building scalable automation frameworks or developer tooling in Python
- Demonstrated success designing test, CI/CD, or MLOps infrastructure used across multiple engineering teams
- Experience validating machine learning systems across the data, training, evaluation, packaging, deployment, and monitoring lifecycle
- Understanding of ML quality risks such as data leakage, training-serving skew, nondeterminism, distribution shift, drift, model regression, and statistical acceptance criteria
- Experience defining model-performance baselines, automated evaluation suites, release thresholds, and candidate-to-production comparison workflows
- Experience testing GPU-accelerated infrastructure and workloads, including GPU scheduling, allocation, utilization, and resource contention in Kubernetes environments

Tags: Quality