Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure

Design, develop, and maintain HIL test infrastructure that integrates real aircraft hardware with simulated systems and environments.

Develop software tools, frameworks, and services to enable large-scale automated and semi-automated system validation.

Support a high-throughput flight test organization running thousands of daily tests, from targeted regression tests to rare off-nominal scenarios.

Write and maintain test software, drivers, and interfaces for embedded and Linux-based systems.

Support test framework architecture designs and improvements.

Debug complex validation failures spanning simulation, hardware, firmware, and application software

Collaborate with flight test engineers, systems engineers, avionics, autonomy and embedded software teams to define system-level validation strategies.

Improve test reliability, debuggability, and signal-to-noise as systems and test volume scale.

4+ years of experience in software engineering for complex, hardware-backed, safety-critical systems.

Extensive experience in Python, specifically using test systems (e.g. pytest)

Experience testing Rust and/or C embedded systems.

Extensive experience working with CI/CD.

Experience developing and executing test plans for complex, safety critical, embedded and cloud software.

Strong problem-solving and ability to quickly learn a new system for testing purposes

The starting cash range for this role is $130,000 - 230,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.

Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure: $130,000–$190,000

Senior Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure: $170,000–$230,000

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