Test Automation Engineer

Anduril Industries•Costa Mesa, CA

13h

About The Position

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. The Software Platform Foundations team builds foundational systems to enable efficient and reliable development, testing, and deployment of defense technology. This role is crucial for ensuring the quality, traceability, and rapid deployment of software solutions, directly contributing to the mission of delivering advanced autonomous systems.

Requirements

3+ years of proven experience building automated verification suites at scale.
DevOps practices, CI/CD pipeline development (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), SRE principles, automated testing frameworks, scripting for automation, understanding of software development lifecycles.
Hands-on experience automating Hardware-in-The-Loop (HITL), and Software-in-The-Loop (SITL) engineering and utilization in production release process.
Expertise in developing and implementing various software development tests, including automated regression testing, unit testing, and integration testing.
Proficiency in Python for automation, scripting, and system development.
Professional experience with containerization workflows and Terraform.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical industry experience.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
NixOS experience
Experience working in a regulated industry or with systems requiring high reliability and traceability.

Responsibilities

Author and execute test plans against the active Lattice release branch, both manual and automated, and maintain them as products evolve.
Help build and extend automated systems for development, verification, and release to uphold the quality bar for SWP services and products.
Develop and maintain reference environments for Lattice workflows, ensuring they are available, representative, and trustworthy.
Build and maintain comprehensive test environments (Cloud, Robot, NixOS VM) and assist teams in debugging software behavior within them.
Implement software interfaces, keyword libraries, and product hooks for seamless, end-to-end testing across complex systems.
Maintain and improve the integration of regression and performance testing into CI/CD pipelines to catch regressions before they reach customers.
Help implement AI-enabled automation for failure triage, remediation suggestions, and test generation.
Onboard SWP services onto the Integrated Continuous Release (ICR) pipeline, including porting tests and wiring up Diagnostic Runner checks.
Raise the bar on engineering hygiene through code review, documentation, and creating clear, debuggable tests.