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# Software Development Engineer

- **Company:** Spire Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Salary:** $130,500.0 - $171,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Agentic-AI
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-development-engineer-in-test-sdet-weather-platforms-spire-company-8018900

## About the Role

* Software engineering background with production experience.
 * Test automation experience across UI, API, and CI.
 * Demonstrated fluency with frontier AI models and agentic coding tools.
 * Show us what you shipped, how AI helped, and how you validated it.
 * Experience with complex state, async data, and failure modes.
 * A bias toward action: move quickly, seek feedback early, and follow through until the product works reliably.

Desired Skills/Qualifications:

 * Weather, geospatial, aviation, or utility industry experience.
 * Interactive mapping and visualization experience with tools such as MapLibre, Mapbox, or deck.gl.
 * Familiarity with forecast data, uncertainty, geographic coordinates, and large spatial or time-series
 * A portfolio of useful, deployed products built with AI-assisted workflows.

## Description

* Write and maintain automated tests for frontend workflows and backend APIs.
 * Own CI/CD quality gates and decide when a release is ready.
 * Check that data-rich interfaces stay correct as data updates, including forecast uncertainty, data freshness, and alert severity.
 * Build test tooling and synthetic data for reproducible scenarios.
 * Fix bugs and contribute production code where it helps.
 * Use AI coding tools for test development and debugging.
 * Collaborate with product, design, scientists, and API engineers; turn ambiguous requirements into testable, shippable increments.