Project Engineer and Site Lead, Autonomous Airpower

Anduril • Victorville, CA

24d • Onsite

About The Position

We are hiring a Project Engineer to manage our developmental test site for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. This role will serve as a linchpin, aligning test operations, maintenance, and test engineering to meet program objectives. This is a high-visibility and high-growth-potential role; the expectation is that this role will establish and set a standard for the business line to apply to future programs. To be successful, this role requires a strong leader, capable of interfacing with and coordinating across all program stakeholders from technicians to executives. Sound technical judgement and intuition for aircraft modification, maintenance, and operations are required to ensure airworthiness of aircraft and technical adequacy of engineering.

Requirements

• 8-15 years of experience in aircraft, weapons, or missile systems development and test.
• Hands-on experience with test, maintenance, and/or test stands.
• Test engineering experience working with developmental systems of manned and/or unmanned aircraft to include requirements development, test planning and execution, and test reporting.
• Ability to quickly understand new concepts, apply them accurately, and organize, schedule, and coordinate work phases to determine the right approach.
• Able to work extended hours as required.
• Ability to travel as required for test planning and execution.
• Ability to immediately obtain a U.S. Top Secret-level security clearance.
• Bias for action – if you see a problem, you want to solve and fix it.
• Leader experienced building and scaling teams and processes.
• Comfortable with safety-critical systems and operations.
• You’ve built hardware and put it into operation.

Nice To Haves

• Aircraft operations, maintenance, and/or pilot experience.
• Homebuilt aircraft or A&P experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Leads test engineering, maintenance, and operations for the Victorville test site.
• Responsible for technical adequacy, safety, and effectiveness of ground, taxi, and flight test for the site.
• Drives efficient and effective operations, balancing trade-offs between speed, rigor, and safety.
• Builds the team and processes needed to optimize and scale.
• Sets the bar for the organization on quality of work, professionalism, and safety.
• Leads technical problem solving, RCCA investigations, and troubleshooting.
• Comfortable with full scope of problem solving, including hands-on troubleshooting, data review, system analysis, and process review.
• Approves maintenance and test plans.
• Directs aircraft configuration and ensures readiness for operations.
• Accountable to Head of Test for safe, efficient, and technically adequate operations at the assigned test site.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
• top-tier benefits for full-time employees

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed