Engineer II, Flight Test - New Grad - 6222
Shield AI · San Diego, California
Posted October 10, 2026
AI Summary
Shield AI is seeking an early-career Engineer II for Flight Test to support integration, verification, and validation of Hivemind Mission Autonomy across unmanned aircraft systems. The role involves assisting senior engineers with test planning, execution in simulation, lab, HIL/SIL, and flight-test environments, data collection, issue investigation, and technical documentation. It's a hands-on opportunity to work on autonomy, robotics, and unmanned systems at a defense-tech company.
Job Description
Job Description:
As an System Test Engineer II, you will support the integration, verification, and validation of Hivemind Mission Autonomy across a variety of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and mission applications. You will work with experienced test, systems, software, autonomy, hardware, and program teams to help prepare, execute, document, and improve system-level test activities.
This is a hands-on engineering role for an early-career candidate interested in autonomy, robotics, unmanned systems, simulation, software-and-hardware integration, and flight-test operations. You will help evaluate whether autonomy capabilities perform as intended in simulation, laboratory, hardware-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop, and, when applicable, flight-test environments.
Under the guidance of senior engineers, you will contribute to test planning, test execution, data collection, issue investigation, and technical documentation. You will also have opportunities to support integration events with internal teams, external platform partners, and customers.
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