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About the Role
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. This role focuses on leading flight test engineering for autonomous aerial vehicles, bridging the gap between engineering and operational stakeholders to ensure mission-ready capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead a small team of flight test engineers, managing workload planning, priorities, and professional development
- Own the flight test campaign schedule from planning through post-test reporting, coordinating with the chief engineer and program leadership
- Serve as the primary interface between the test team and customer test authorities during joint test events and operational evaluations
- Make risk-informed decisions on test readiness, go/no-go criteria, and safety-of-flight matters in coordination with the flight test director
- Brief test results and vehicle status to program leadership and customer stakeholders
- Author and review flight test plans, test cards, and data reduction plans for developmental, integration, and operational test phases
- Define test points, flight envelopes, and success criteria for autonomous aerial vehicle capabilities
- Execute flight tests as test conductor or vehicle operator, including pre-flight checks, mission execution, and post-flight debrief
- Develop and maintain flight test instrumentation requirements, telemetry configurations, and data acquisition system setups
- Coordinate range operations, airspace requirements, and regulatory compliance for test activities
- Support design and integration of autonomous aerial vehicle subsystems and components, including managing interfaces between hardware and software
- Develop, build, and operate physical integration environments (hardware-in-the-loop, ground test setups) to support system maturity
- Perform flight test data reduction and analysis to evaluate vehicle performance against requirements and specifications
- Author detailed test reports documenting execution, results, and recommendations for both internal and customer audiences
- Support in-field debug, repair, and maintenance of autonomous aerial vehicles during test campaigns and deployments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a related discipline
- 7+ years of experience in flight test engineering, systems integration, or a closely related test and evaluation discipline
- Demonstrated experience planning and executing flight test campaigns, including authoring test plans and test cards
- Proven ability to lead or manage a small technical team through complex test programs
- Working knowledge of flight dynamics, aerodynamics, propulsion, or control theory as applied to flight test
- Familiarity with flight test instrumentation, data acquisition systems, and telemetry
- Experience with test hazard analysis, safety review processes, and airworthiness or flight clearance procedures (manned or unmanned)
- Proficiency with Linux, command-line interfaces, and software debugging in a test environment
- Strong written communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, defensible test plans and reports for technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to obtain and maintain an NV1 Security Clearance
Skills
- Autonomous aerial vehicles
- Flight test engineering
- Systems integration
- Test and evaluation
- Flight dynamics
- Aerodynamics
- Propulsion
- Control theory
- Flight test instrumentation
- Data acquisition systems
- Telemetry
- Test hazard analysis
- Safety review processes
- Airworthiness procedures
- Flight clearance procedures
- Linux
- Command-line interfaces
- Software debugging
- Written communication
- Unmanned aerial system (UAS) flight test
- Autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles
- Model-based systems engineering
- Requirements-driven test and evaluation
- Military test and evaluation frameworks (DT&E, OT&E)
- Range coordination
- Airspace management
- Regulatory compliance for flight test activities
- Vehicle-level test experience
- Electronics troubleshooting
- Basic test and measurement equipment
Location
- Test ranges
- Customer sites
- Field locations
Work Type
- Full-time
- Travel
- Deployment
Experience Level
- 7+ years of experience in flight test engineering, systems integration, or a closely related test and evaluation discipline
- Leadership experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a related discipline
Salary/Compensations
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
About the Company
- Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.
- By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold.
- Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center.
- As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
Equal Opportunity
- Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer, and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
- If you are someone passionate to work on problems that matter, we’d love to hear from you!