Senior Flight Test Engineer, Group

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 real-time, 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.

This position is looking for a highly motivated flight test engineer and test lead with emphasis in developmental test of a new and revolutionary Group 5 UAS. You will work heavily with the program leadership and a wide spectrum of cross-departments to help build a team focused on solving hard problems and changing the industry forever. The role will be responsible for assisting on planning, coordination, execution, and reporting on all facets of the test program.

The Test and Evaluation team at Anduril works across the entire spectrum of products and business lines, as well as all flight operations and test range management. Our team conducts full system level development testing, new production acceptance testing, sub-component qualification testing, and much more. If you are interested in working in an extremely innovative and fast-paced environment, where your work directly makes an impact and difference in the products that are fielded, this is a fantastic opportunity.

• As a lead Flight Test Engineer, under minimal supervision, you will determine, develop, and recommend various approaches to achieve T&E goals set by Anduril T&E and Program leadership. You will manage, guide, and execute technical efforts of the Fury development test program. You will provide direct input to test event planning, preparation, execution, and reporting.
• This position will focus heavily on new aircraft development, with emphasis on envelope expansion, flying qualities, vehicle autonomy, and test in operational environments.
• You will be responsible for ensuring comprehensive flight test campaign execution of multiple test articles in support of high-risk test events.
• Test duties include testing hardware and software in laboratory, ground, and flight test environments, with emphasis placed on resource planning. You will be expected to seek process improvements to increase test efficiency across all test environments.
• You will be directly responsible for supporting test execution at government test facilities with USG partners.
• You will facilitate and lead the technical interactions between disparate engineering teams. You will coordinate across the members of T&E IPT, including Flight Operations and Maintenance.
• You will directly contribute to periodic and milestone engineering reviews, often facilitating technical discussions between Anduril and customer representatives.
• Faced with numerous technical and execution challenges, you will be expected to develop creative solutions to unique problems. You will be biased for action — you are empowered to engage your team to solve and fix any problem you encounter without direct supervision.
• You will be part of an organization that challenges traditional T&E paradigms and is poised to affect the trajectory of the flight test industry.

• 10+ years of experience as test conductor/director for developmental aircraft, weapons, or missile systems.
• A bachelor's degree or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution. May substitute equivalent engineering experience in lieu of education.
• Test engineering experience working with developmental systems of manned and/or unmanned aircraft to include requirements development, test planning and execution, and test reporting.
• Must have a complete understanding of Test & Evaluation engineering concepts, principles, codes, and theory; with experience demonstrating a broad application…