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# Senior Test and Automation Engineer

- **Company:** INVERSION LLC
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $137,000.0 - $193,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Automation of Tests, Bash Shell, C++ (Programming Language), Databases, DevOps, Middleware, Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, Lua (Scripting Language), Windows PowerShell, RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Message Oriented Middleware, Simulation Software, Software Engineering, Data Logging, Multithreading, Scripting, Delivery Pipeline, Containerization, Influxdb, Deployment Automation, Apache Kafka, Docker
- **Published:** July 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=996f94db34ebf454

## About the Role

* 5+ years of professional experience in testing and automation of software and hardware systems
 * Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (Python, Lua, Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
 * Proficiency in one or more embedded languages (C/C++, Rust, etc.)
 * Experience with Linux-based systems
 * Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government Secret/Top Secret security clearance., * Proficiency in the integration and testing of mission- and safety-critical electronics
 * Experience with modern DevOps practices
 * Experience with async and multithreaded architectures
 * Experience with data acquisition and logging
 * Experience with robotics middleware and autonomy stacks (ROS 2, Webots, Orocos, YARP, etc.)
 * Familiarity with time-series databases (InfluxDB, QuestDB, Prometheus, etc.)
 * Familiarity with message-oriented middleware (NATS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
 * Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Docker Compose, etc.)

## Description

As a Test and Automation Engineer at Inversion, you will work as part of the simulation team to build, test, maintain, and develop the automated software and hardware systems that support the simulation and test environments for our flight systems. The simulation team is responsible for ensuring that flight software and flight hardware can be continuously integrated and tested under realistic flight conditions. You will play a key role in the automation of electrical ground support equipment (EGSE) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test benches that will enable fast, repeatable development and deployment workflows across the engineering stack. Your work will empower Inversion's engineering teams to iterate rapidly throughout the development life cycle and will strengthen Inversion's ability to put our products into the hands of our customers with unprecedented speed and agility., * Automate provisioning, deployment, execution, operation, and logging tasks to optimize resource utilization and allocation

 * Develop automated test scripts to support qualification efforts for our flight software and hardware systems
 * Develop device API wrappers for EGSE equipment (e.g.: to control power supplies, oscilloscopes, etc., via automated test scripts)
 * Develop emulators for flight hardware to support software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
 * Contribute to the design and development of a simulation system capable of automatically provisioning and deploying resources to support simulation workflows


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