Lab & Integration Engineer

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

You will engineer and integrate on the lab fleet behind our flagship autonomous air vehicle: software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop rigs for vehicle management, flight controls and mission systems, plus an iron bird with hydraulics, loaded actuation and power.

Responsibilities

• Engineer the rigs. Develop and maintain rig designs within the lab architecture: block diagrams, rack and power layouts, network design, harness definitions and pin-to-pins, and rig interface control documents.
• Bring rigs up. Plan and lead bring-up of the rigs you own: safe-to-mate, power-on and BIT, LRU checkout, network and time-sync verification, and host/sim reference-scenario runs.
• Own the HITL host and simulation integration. Integrate the real-time host, I/O, plant models and simulation with flight hardware.
• Integrate on the rigs. Run integration for software releases and new hardware on the rigs: execute integration procedures, triage failures across software, avionics, mission systems and lab causes, write and drive discrepancy reports to closure, and run regression after each change.
• Hold configuration discipline. Maintain each rig’s configuration baseline with Configuration Management.
• Capture data that holds up. Set up data recording and logging so results trace back to requirements and configuration.
• Automate. Automate repetitive checkout, configuration capture and regression runs.
• Support capacity and planning. Provide rig-hour estimates, build and bring-up schedules, and long-lead material inputs for your rigs.
• Work safely and securely. Contribute to the lab hazard analysis and network and classified-lab accreditation for your rigs, and follow and improve the controls for hydraulics, high power, rotating machinery and classified operations.
• Raise the bar for the team. Write the procedures, checklists and lessons learned that let technicians and the next engineer work without you, and mentor technicians on troubleshooting and documentation.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in electrical, computer, aerospace or mechanical engineering, computer science, or a similar technical field.
• 3+ years of hands-on engineering in SIL, HIL, iron bird, avionics integration lab or flight-hardware integration and test for aircraft, missiles, space systems or comparable complex systems.
• Electrical and avionics integration skills: reading and producing schematics, harness definitions and pin-to-pins, MIL-DTL-38999-class connectors, safe-to-mate, and aircraft power distribution.
• Working knowledge of avionics data buses and networks such as Ethernet, MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, RS-422/485 and CAN, and of time synchronization.
• Experience integrating or operating real-time HITL hosts, simulation, I/O and data-acquisition hardware.
• Proficiency in Python and Linux for automation, data analysis and tooling.
• Confident with bench instrumentation and bus analyzers, and a structured approach to isolating faults across hardware, network and software.
• Experience producing controlled engineering records.
• Clear written and verbal communication with software, hardware, test and program teams.
• Able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with real-time simulation and HIL platforms.
• Mission systems integration experience.
• Iron bird, hydraulic, flight-control actuation or power-system test experience.
• Lab CI and test automation.
• Lab network design and accreditation experience.
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-704 and MIL-STD-461.
• Flight test or ground test support on a developmental aircraft program.