Senior Integration and Test Engineer

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

Anduril is seeking a Senior Integration and Test Engineer to join its maritime team and help develop the next generation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). The role leads integration of subsystems and testing efforts to ensure system performance meets specifications and standards. It also serves as a key contact for senior leadership, communicating technical progress, risks, and results across the organization.

The engineer plans, reviews, and executes development, integration, and acceptance testing; documents internal and customer-facing test activities; and contributes to design reviews, requirements analysis, and system verification planning. The role supports a test and evaluation program that may be subject to Government standards, as well as field and sea operations, troubleshooting, maintenance, logistics, demonstrations, and operational metrics. It includes mentoring a multidisciplinary team and may involve multi-day offshore operations and multi-week travel during demonstration events.

The position requires at least seven years of systems engineering, integration, and test experience, along with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance. Travel is listed as 10% of the time, with potential for over 25% during key test campaigns or surges. Pre-employment and randomized substance screening may be required.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in systems engineering, integration, and test, and a genuine interest in the work.
• Experience generating Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), test plans, test procedures, and test reports.
• Familiarity with mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and software development concepts.
• Experience in field testing and operationally focused environments.
• Knowledge of electronics troubleshooting and ability to use basic test equipment.
• Experience with Linux, command-line interfaces, and software debugging.
• Proficiency in reading and understanding engineering drawings and specifications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presenting engineering findings clearly to senior leadership, executive stakeholders, and cross-functional audiences.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance.
• Ability to travel 10% of the time, with potential for over 25% during key test campaigns or surges.
• Subject to pre-employment and randomized substance screening as required by the company.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with software validation testing of embedded or autonomous systems, including test planning, procedure authoring, SITL/HITL execution, defect triage, and requirements-based closeout.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting electrical systems, including fabricating cable harnesses and PCB-level assemblies.
• Experience troubleshooting analog and digital circuits with oscilloscopes, DMMs, and logic analyzers to isolate component-level faults.
• Experience operating and testing complex systems in a maritime environment.
• Experience integrating subsea sensors, underwater navigation, and communications systems.
• Demonstrated experience with subsea operational procedures and equipment.
• Experience with data analysis tools such as Python, MATLAB, R, SQL, and PromQL.
• Experience managing a test and evaluation program.
• Experience in maritime offshore operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop, review, and execute comprehensive test plans for development, integration, and acceptance testing.
• Author or review operational test reports documenting internal and customer-facing testing and evaluation of AUV platforms and capabilities.
• Communicate test progress, findings, and risk assessments to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Participate in and lead design reviews, requirements analysis, and system verification planning.
• Build, support, and maintain a test and evaluation program that may be subject to Government test and evaluation standards.
• Support day-to-day test operations, including pre-mission testing, launch and recovery, vehicle tasking, and data analysis.
• Lead integration of sensors, navigation, propulsion, communications, autonomy software, and power subsystems into functional AUVs.
• Troubleshoot, repair, operate, and maintain AUVs in the field.
• Support pre-mission and post-mission logistics for test operations.
• Work with and mentor multidisciplinary engineers and specialists throughout product design, integration, and test efforts.
• Set up, collect, and refine operational metrics.
• Support local sea testing and operations, including multi-day offshore operations.
• Support demonstration test events, including travel periods of multiple weeks.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of total compensation.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, described as comprehensive and competitive and available at little to no cost to employees. Specific benefits are not listed.

What This Job Offers

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