--- title: "Simulation & Automation Team Lead · Petah Tikva · Airobotics" description: "Petah Tikva, Israel · On-site — Airobotics is a leading company specializing in the development and manufacturing of autonomous drone systems. Its…" canonical_url: "https://www.dronejobs.app/jobs/airobotics-simulation-automation-team-lead" meta: "og:description": "Petah Tikva, Israel · On-site — Airobotics is a leading company specializing in the development and manufacturing of autonomous drone systems. Its…" "og:image": "https://www.dronejobs.app/_og/d/c_JobPosting%2Cslug_airobotics-simulation-automation-team-lead%2Cp_Ii9qb2JzL2Fpcm9ib3RpY3Mtc2ltdWxhdGlvbi1hdXRvbWF0aW9uLXRlYW0tbGVhZCI%2Cs_4P4-IRz6Q2_dI8C9.png" "og:image:height": "630" "og:image:type": image/png "og:image:width": "1200" "og:title": "Simulation & Automation Team Lead · Petah Tikva · Airobotics" "twitter:image": "https://www.dronejobs.app/_og/d/c_JobPosting%2Cslug_airobotics-simulation-automation-team-lead%2Cp_Ii9qb2JzL2Fpcm9ib3RpY3Mtc2ltdWxhdGlvbi1hdXRvbWF0aW9uLXRlYW0tbGVhZCI%2Cs_4P4-IRz6Q2_dI8C9.png" --- > Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://www.dronejobs.app/llms.txt) [Back to jobs](https://www.dronejobs.app/jobs) ![Logo of Airobotics](https://assets.jobbb.io/cdn-cgi/image/w=128,h=128,f=auto/logos/01kk1ewn3swrmy7tayw8syw5pz_1772796925.png) **Airobotics** **Actively hiring ** [Website](https://airoboticsdrones.com) # **Simulation & Automation Team Lead**
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**Lead**
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Location Petah Tikva, Israel --- Airobotics is a leading company specializing in the development and manufacturing of autonomous drone systems. 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. We 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. We 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. This 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. #### Responsibilities - Lead, mentor, and grow a team of simulation and automation engineers - Define the company's test strategy: what is covered by unit tests, simulation, HIL, and real flight, and who owns each layer - Own the simulation stack: software-in-the-loop (SITL) for the flight controller and high-fidelity 3D environments for sensors, physics, and the world - Integrate 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 - Design and own HIL infrastructure that brings real onboard computers, flight controllers, and sensors into automated test flows - Own the automation frameworks for backend, UI, onboard, and end-to-end testing, including mission execution, degraded links, and failure injection - Embed simulation, HIL, and automated tests into CI/CD, and define the quality gates a build must pass to reach a release and a vehicle - Build the tooling that makes simulation and testing easy for every engineer: scenario authoring, local runs, replay, and debugging - Report on quality: coverage, pass rates, escaped defects, and pipeline stability - Drive a quality-first engineering culture across R&D, DevOps, and Product #### Requirements - 6+ years in software engineering, with significant time in simulation, test automation, or both - 2+ years leading engineers as a team lead or tech lead - Strong programming skills in Python and C++ - Proven experience building test automation frameworks from scratch and running them in CI - Hands-on experience with simulation environments, game engines, or physics-based systems - Experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar) and Docker/Kubernetes - Strong understanding of distributed systems, real-time systems, and system architecture - Strong communication skills and the ability to define and defend a test strategy across teams **Nice To Have** - Hands-on experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Gazebo, AirSim, Unreal Engine, or Unity - Experience with PX4 or ArduPilot SITL and MAVLink - Experience with ROS 2 or DDS - Experience designing or operating hardware-in-the-loop rigs - Experience with UI automation tools such as Playwright - Experience modeling sensors (camera, lidar, GNSS, IMU), physics, or environments - Experience with robotics, drones, or autonomous systems, ideally in a safety- or mission-critical context **What Makes This Role Unique** - Own both halves of validation, the virtual world and the tests that run in it, as one team - First lead for this function: you define the simulation and test strategy for the whole company - Direct impact on the safety and reliability of autonomous aerial operations ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@id":"https://www.dronejobs.app/#website","@type":"WebSite","inLanguage":"en","name":"DroneJobs","url":"https://www.dronejobs.app","publisher":{"@id":"https://www.dronejobs.app/#identity"}},{"@id":"https://www.dronejobs.app/jobs/airobotics-simulation-automation-team-lead#webpage","@type":"WebPage","description":"Petah Tikva, Israel · On-site — Airobotics is a leading company specializing in the development and manufacturing of autonomous drone systems. 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