Senior Software QA Engineer, Aviation at Flock
Atlanta, GA
$150,000–$180,000
Jul 14, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior QA engineering role focused on validating drone and docking hardware systems used in public safety contexts. The work involves hands-on testing of physical aircraft and dock hardware alongside cloud-connected software, covering test plan authorship, log-level debugging on Linux, and building automated test pipelines. Suited to engineers with a background in safety-critical mechatronic systems such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, or aerospace.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $150,000–$185,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 380 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 160–690
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The job posting explicitly states the role is based in the Atlanta metro area (Mableton testing facility) and is described as a hands-on, in-person role with physical hardware. The caller has overridden this to remote=true with a national candidate pool; the metro has been left blank accordingly.
The degree requirement lists 'Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field' under Must-haves, but the JD also states 'equivalent experience' is implicitly accepted via the general encouragement language and the degree is paired with 8+ years experience — treated as None (not a hard gate in isolation).
FAA Part 107 certification is listed under Nice-to-haves alongside drone/aviation experience — both treated as preferred.
CJIS certification is a post-hire condition of employment, not a pre-hire screening gate, so it is not reflected in the clearance requirement.
Serial communications (CAN/UART) are listed as a single 'technical understanding' requirement; CAN is named as the primary with UART as the alternative since they are the two named options.
Computer vision and edge computing appear in the Must-haves section as contextual technical understanding rather than named tools, so they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
Grafana, Sigma, and Tableau are listed together as visualization/backend tools under Nice-to-haves; Grafana is named primary with the others as alternatives since they serve the same dashboard/visualization function in this context.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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