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Its solutions combine hardware, software, and AI-driven technologies to support complex, large-scale operations. Airobotics works primarily with defense industries, including military and law enforcement agencies worldwide. The company is part of Ondas Holdings and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary.\nWe build the software platform behind autonomous drone operations: a cloud backend, a ground control application, and onboard software running on the drone's companion computer alongside the flight controller.\nWe are looking for a Simulation & Automation Team Lead to own how this system is validated before it flies. You will lead the team that builds our simulation environments, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) rigs, and the automated test frameworks and quality gates that run on top of them.\nThis is a hands-on leadership role. You will lead simulation and automation engineers as one team with one mission: make any mission, failure, or edge case testable repeatably and at scale, without waiting for a drone and a field day. You will set the company's quality strategy and still write code.\nResponsibilities\nLead, mentor, and grow a team of simulation and automation engineers\nDefine the company's test strategy: what is covered by unit tests, simulation, HIL, and real flight, and who owns each layer\nOwn the simulation stack: software-in-the-loop (SITL) for the flight controller and high-fidelity 3D environments for sensors, physics, and the world\nIntegrate simulation with the full software stack so the backend, ground control, and onboard software run against a simulated drone exactly as they do against a real one\nDesign and own HIL infrastructure that brings real onboard computers, flight controllers, and sensors into automated test flows\nOwn the automation frameworks for backend, UI, onboard, and end-to-end testing, including mission execution, degraded links, and failure injection\nEmbed simulation, HIL, and automated tests into CI/CD, and define the quality gates a build must pass to reach a release and a vehicle\nBuild the tooling that makes simulation and testing easy for every engineer: scenario authoring, local runs, replay, and debugging\nReport on quality: coverage, pass rates, escaped defects, and pipeline stability\nDrive a quality-first engineering culture across R&D, DevOps, and Product\nRequirements\n6+ years in software engineering, with significant time in simulation, test automation, or both\n2+ years leading engineers as a team lead or tech lead\nStrong programming skills in Python and C++\nProven experience building test automation frameworks from scratch and running them in CI\nHands-on experience with simulation environments, game engines, or physics-based systems\nExperience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar) and Docker/Kubernetes\nStrong understanding of distributed systems, real-time systems, and system architecture\nStrong communication skills and the ability to define and defend a test strategy across teamsNice To 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