Software Systems Quality and Deployment Engineer

ANDURIL INDUSTRIES•Irvine, CA

38d

About The Position

As a Software Systems Quality and Deployment Engineer on the Air and Ground Deterrence Software Engineering Team, you will be a critical part of ensuring that our software products comply with our software processes, standards, and safety requirements. You will own the operational aspects of ensuring the software is tested thoroughly, maintained appropriately, and deployed with efficiency to customer and development environments and edge systems. In the near term, this role is critical for delivery of major programs for the Air Defense business unit.

Requirements

Experienced in Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) roles with high familiarity of software processes, tools, and standards.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and desire to interact with customers and company leadership.
Willingness to travel up to 30% for test and integration efforts

Nice To Haves

Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting
Ability to work with scripting tools (such as Python) for developing data capture and analysis tools for engineering insight
Experience with Nix/NixOS.
Proven experience in a test engineering role, demonstrating leadership and innovation.
Experience implementing automated testing frameworks in software-in-the-loop (SITL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) environments.
Experience in Agile methodologies.
Experience with Unix/Linux tools for performance analysis and debugging problems (valgrind, perf, etc)
Demonstrated mentorship and/or leadership skills

Responsibilities

Coordinate the delivery of release candidates to Quality Assurance teams and Test and Evaluation teams with clear success criteria and traceability to requirements. You will work hand-in-hand with the Software Release Manager in this effort.
Ensure compliance with defined software processes and standards
PR reviews, code scans, no dead code, test coverage, etc.
Own software safety oversight and compliance
In coordination with Anduril System Safety team and Air Defense Systems Engineering team, coordinate traceability of safety significant and safety critical requirements and testing against identified levels of rigor that must be implemented and documented.
Develop and mechanize safety regression threads on every build to ensure safety requirement coverage.
Develop a deep understanding of MILSTD-882E and the Joint Software System Safety Engineering Handbook implementation guide.
Oversee verification and validation of software releases through SITL, HITL, QA, and T&E interactions
Implement and manage automated testing and deployment processes in an established continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environment to ensure a release pipeline infrastructure that is gated on automated tests with high code coverage
Work with other software developers to improve their unit and regression test coverage
Define and develop software in the loop (SITL) and hardware in the loop (HITL) tests to validate system level performance and assure system quality
Utilize git and CI automations to execute nightly and automated builds and system checks, reacting and delegating fixes as issues are uncovered
Perform minor updates to existing Lattice simulation environments and manually run various sim tests to confirm system functionality.
Develop automated Continuous Integration pipelines through SW build tools (Github + Circle CI) to develop tests that ensure high test coverage per commit and release.
Oversee use of HITL assets for verification of releases
Monitor and enhance system reliability, performance, and security through automation and monitoring of metrics collected from SITL, HITL, flight test, and deployed operations.
Build out dashboards to demonstrate system performance, system maintenance and system improvements over time
Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps with product-centric and platform-wide developers
Develop data and log capture and analysis tools to communicate empirical outputs of QA and T&E efforts
Develop processes and tools to inspect and maintain system configuration sets (Configuration Management of test and deployed assets)
Support the team in maintaining rapid development while in parallel improving our processes, standards, testing infrastructure, and data-driven empirical evidence of end-to-end system performance
This role will allow you to grow in your communication and leadership skills. We need people willing to deliver high quality documentation to Anduril leadership and customer stakeholders.

Benefits

US Roles: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
UK & AUS Roles: We cover full cost of medical insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
IE Roles: We offer an annual contribution toward your private health insurance for you and your dependents.
Income Protection: Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees.
Generous time off: Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December. Caregiver & Wellness Leave is available to care for family members, bond with a new baby, or address your own medical needs.
Family Planning & Parenting Support: Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carriers, along with resources to support you and your partner from planning to parenting.
Mental Health Resources: Access free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching. Additional work-life services, such as legal and financial support, are also available.
Professional Development: Annual reimbursement for professional development
Commuter Benefits: Company-funded commuter benefits based on your region.
Relocation Assistance: Available depending on role eligibility.
US Roles: Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax (mega backdoor Roth) options.
UK & IE Roles: Pension plan with employer match.
AUS Roles: Superannuation plan.