Top Senior Test Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Manage Anthro’s battery test lab, including cell testing, materials characterization, equipment installation and calibration, test protocol deployment, resource allocation, and technician oversight. Collaborate with R&D, manufacturing, data systems, and facilities teams to improve safety, accuracy, efficiency, data accessibility, and automated pipelines. Develop custom test solutions and reliability methods while managing high-value equipment, cross-functional projects, and lab operations.

Design and maintain automated testing frameworks for cloud-scale distributed systems. Build performance, load, stress, integration, API, end-to-end, chaos, security, and infrastructure tests. Integrate continuous testing into CI/CD pipelines, analyze observability data, validate Kubernetes and microservices environments, and collaborate with Engineering and SRE teams to improve reliability. The role also participates in on-call rotations and helps establish QA strategy and standards across GPU infrastructure, serverless endpoints, storage, billing, and event-driven systems.

The Senior Test Engineer designs and operates complex mechanical and electrical systems for testing jet engines, ensuring quality and performance metrics are met and improving test capabilities.

Leads end-to-end manufacturing test engineering for ŌURA products, including DFT strategy, test requirements, station and fixture architecture, software automation, factory data integration, statistical capability analysis, failure investigation, and continuous yield improvement. Partners with hardware, firmware, quality, operations, supply chain, contract manufacturers, and vendors from prototype through mass production. The hybrid role requires 2–3 days weekly in San Francisco and travel up to 25% to domestic and international factories.

Leads system-level integration testing of aircraft battery and energy storage systems, including battery packs, BMS, power distribution, conversion, thermal management, and aircraft interfaces. Develops test plans, procedures, instrumentation, and lab configurations; executes mission-profile, fault-injection, environmental, reliability, and communication testing. Analyzes electrical, thermal, and telemetry data, investigates anomalies, supports FAA qualification and certification, coordinates test reviews, and advances test automation while maintaining high-voltage safety.

Lead the Flight Test Automation Pod and establish technical direction for automated testing of autonomous drones. Design scalable frameworks and CI/CD pipelines spanning mobile, browser, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and real-world flight testing. Apply AI-assisted workflows to test generation, failure triage, and flight-log analysis. Define coverage metrics, improve test strategy, mentor engineers, and partner with software, flight test, and reliability teams to improve product quality and release confidence.

Leads product testing, reliability assessment, verification, experimental design, failure analysis, and technical investigations for scientific instrumentation. Develops test strategies, protocols, fixtures, and measurement methods; analyzes experimental data; performs root-cause analysis; and recommends product improvements. Collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, quality, software, firmware, and product teams while mentoring technical staff and serving as a subject matter expert in product performance and reliability.

Supports Navy ballistic armor acquisition across development, testing, qualification, and sustainment. Reviews test plans and reports, witnesses FAT/LAT events, leads failure investigations, evaluates engineering changes and commercial laboratories, maintains configuration control, plans user evaluations, and authors purchase descriptions, technical manuals, and maintenance documentation. Requires expertise in soft and hard armor, ballistic standards, military acquisition, and Secret clearance eligibility.

Integrates, tests, validates, and troubleshoots LTE and 5G Layer 1 and Layer 2 systems, SDR platforms, OpenAirInterface, Open RAN, RF equipment, and advanced waveforms. Builds and maintains wireless communications laboratories, executes performance and interoperability testing, develops automation, analyzes results, and resolves hardware, software, networking, RF, and integration issues. Supports demonstrations, field exercises, technology evaluations, and customer engagements in hybrid laboratory and operational environments.

Leads development of large-scale software and hardware-in-the-loop testing frameworks for autonomous vehicle systems. Designs CI pipelines, regression automation, log-mining tools, and performance dashboards; performs safety requirement gap analysis and validates safety-critical monitors. Conducts root-cause analysis for system failures and provides technical mentorship. The role requires deep HIL/SIL expertise, Python development, real-time systems knowledge, and experience with automated testing infrastructure.

Develop and execute hardware validation, reliability, compliance, and stress-test programs for electrical products. Build automated Python and Linux-based test setups, perform hands-on lab testing and debugging, analyze results statistically, support regulatory testing, and lead root-cause investigations. Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, systems, and design teams to translate requirements into test specifications and improve product reliability.

The Senior SDET develops and maintains regression automation, performs manual and automated testing across smoke, integration, performance, and regression scenarios, and documents defects and test results. The role collaborates with product and customer-facing teams throughout the SDLC, contributes to planning and quality processes, maintains GitHub automation repositories, identifies quality risks, and participates in on-call support.

Develop scalable test automation frameworks, QA tools, and intelligent testing systems using Playwright, C#, and JavaScript/TypeScript. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, build end-to-end, integration, and performance solutions, and apply AI techniques to improve test generation and defect detection. Partner with engineering and QA teams, troubleshoot reliability issues, contribute to test strategy, and mentor colleagues on automation and modern testing practices.

Designs and automates performance testing for mobile applications using load-testing tools, cloud infrastructure, containers, and CI/CD pipelines. Develops ramped-load, capacity, and spike scenarios; schedules recurring tests; configures alerts and pass/fail thresholds; analyzes results through observability tools; and identifies performance bottlenecks. The role also manages authentication, documentation, client collaboration, environment readiness, project deliverables, and knowledge transfer while mentoring teammates and promoting AI adoption.

Design and execute validation tests for high-voltage energy storage power electronics. Diagnose hardware failures to the component level, develop custom PCBAs and electrical test infrastructure, automate testing and data analysis with Python, and collaborate on FMEAs, test plans, and design improvements.

Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts for React and Node.js applications using TypeScript and Selenium. Perform manual, regression, performance, database, and data validation testing; manage defects; integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines; and collaborate with Agile teams to troubleshoot complex issues and ensure software quality. Requires a bachelor’s degree, at least five years of experience, and an active or obtainable TSA clearance.

Designs and maintains automated and manual testing strategies, test suites, and test plans. Identifies and tracks defects, performs API, load, and performance testing, and contributes to feature development and bug fixes. Provides testing guidance, participates in code reviews and planning, supports release quality decisions, and promotes software quality across cross-functional teams.

Own system-level testing for Lance and LanceDB across correctness, reliability, scalability, performance, data integrity, fault recovery, upgrades, and compatibility. Build automated test frameworks, realistic workloads, fault-injection scenarios, performance and soak tests, and reproducible CI environments. Investigate failures using logs, metrics, traces, and source code, create minimal reproductions, and partner with engineers on fixes. Apply AI tools responsibly to accelerate test development, failure analysis, and debugging.

Designs, fabricates, operates, and improves test infrastructure for jet engines and subsystems. Responsibilities include designing test stands and fixtures, analyzing fluid systems, developing test plans and instrumentation, documenting schematics and procedures, conducting hardware testing, analyzing test data, validating models, implementing test strategies, and applying safety controls in hazardous environments.

The Senior Propulsion Test Engineer will design and operate test stand infrastructure for jet engine testing, improving test capabilities and ensuring quality metrics are met prior to aircraft integration.

Own test strategy for a portfolio of government web applications, build automated regression suites, integrate testing into CI/CD, and lead four test engineers. The role replaces manual regression, improves release confidence and delivery speed, and embeds security into development pipelines. Responsibilities include coaching government testers and engineers, communicating readiness to nontechnical stakeholders, and supporting adoption of sustainable testing practices in a U.S. Air Force environment.

Designs, develops, and maintains automated software testing frameworks for embedded and real-time medical device systems. Develops Python and Shell/Bash test automation, integrates testing with continuous integration workflows, executes functional and risk-based testing, investigates failures, documents defects, and supports FDA-regulated verification and validation. Collaborates with software, systems, electrical, and quality teams, performs code reviews, improves test infrastructure, and mentors engineers.

Own end-to-end verification and validation for complex cloud-native software systems. Design comprehensive testing strategies, build scalable backend and frontend automation frameworks, identify coverage gaps, perform root cause analysis, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and improve testing efficiency. Apply AI-assisted tools to testing and debugging, evaluate emerging AI capabilities, mentor engineers, and raise quality standards across teams.

Lead hardware test and reliability efforts for autonomous drones: define and execute validation strategies from prototype to production, perform failure analysis, drive corrective actions, contribute design-for-reliability, and use telemetry and data (Python/SQL/AI) to develop prognostics and reliability specs.

Develops and deploys automated electronic manufacturing test systems for PCBA and system-level products. Leads FCT and EOL test development, defines coverage and validation strategies, integrates test equipment and vendor fixtures, and performs FAT/SAT. Collaborates with electrical, firmware, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams during NPI and production ramp. Supports failure analysis, root-cause investigations, DFT improvements, MES/database integration, and continuous improvements to test automation, diagnostics, uptime, and manufacturing efficiency.