Software Developer in Test, Air DefenseNew$171K

Irvine, California, United StatesManufacturing

The opportunity

The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters.

What you'll do

  • Design and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for backend systems, APIs, and distributed components.

  • Build and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate testing and deployments in secure cloud environments.

  • Develop and execute test strategies, including functional, integration, performance, and reliability testing.

  • Conduct end-to-end testing of complete software stacks in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

  • Troubleshoot system issues using advanced Linux expertise, log analysis, and network debugging.

  • Configure and manage test environments, including virtualized and containerized setups.

What they're looking for

  • Experience with Robot Framework or other keyword-driven test automation tools.
  • Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, DataDog).
  • Knowledge of gRPC-based microservices testing.
  • Experience with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, K6).
  • Proficiency in Golang or willingness to learn it.
  • Exposure to Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL) or Software-in-the-Loop (SITL) simulation environments.