Senior Quality Engineer, Applied AI

Role Overview

Anduril Industries is hiring a Senior Quality Engineer, Applied AI. This is a full‑time role in Boston, Massachusetts. Part of Anduril Industries’s Lifecycle hiring. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.

Salary is not disclosed in this posting. Market median for Senior‑level Lifecycle roles is $110k–$160k (based on 74 comparable listings). Many employers share specifics during the interview process or after an initial screen.

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.

Corp Tech Platform is the internal engineering force multiplier behind Anduril’s corporate systems. It drives Corp Tech engineering forward through strategic investment in data platforms, software platforms, QA and release excellence, ERP engineering, and AI infrastructure. We build the foundations that power both CorpOS, enabling Finance and Growth to operate with speed and precision, and ArsenalOS, the digital backbone of Anduril’s hardware enterprise.

By unifying systems, accelerating development velocity, and embedding intelligence into every layer, Corp Tech Platform transforms how the company operates end to end. We are also driving Anduril toward becoming an autonomous enterprise. Through initiatives like the Autonomous Software Factory, we are rethinking how software is built, tested, deployed, and evolved by integrating AI directly into the engineering lifecycle. This is not a support function.

It is a strategic engine. Corp Tech Platform is how Anduril scales its business systems with the same rigor, speed, and adaptability as its mission critical products.

• Act as the quality and reliability lead within a small, senior AI development pod focused on solving novel, high‑impact business and engineering problems.
• Design and implement test strategies, validation approaches, and release readiness criteria for AI‑enabled software, automation, and agentic workflows.
• Partner closely with software and AI engineers to identify failure modes early across code, prompts, models, integrations, infrastructure, and user workflows.
• Build confidence in fast‑moving solutions through automated testing, observability, instrumentation, environment design, and operational safeguards.
• Help define practical standards for reliability, resiliency, debugging, and production operations in an AI‑first development model.
• Contribute directly in code, infrastructure, and tooling where needed to improve delivery confidence, developer feedback loops, and production stability.
• Support launch readiness, production issue response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement for front‑facing systems delivered by the pod.
• Evangelize strong engineering discipline in areas such as quality assurance, release engineering, infrastructure hygiene, and incident prevention without sacrificing speed.

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, quality engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related role in a fast‑paced environment.
• Demonstrated experience building or operating reliable production software systems, including ownership of testing, observability, deployment confidence, and operational readiness.
• Strong technical fluency in modern software architectures, APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD, and cloud or platform infrastructure.
• Experience working with frontier AI tooling, AI coding…