Staff Test Automation Engineer

Job Title: Staff Test Automation Engineer

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States

As the Staff Test Automation Engineer at Anduril Industries, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality, traceability, and rapid deployment of our software solutions. You will work within a complex ecosystem system, up and down the entire stack, where architectural decisions have concrete, measurable consequences and correctness matters.

This role is open to senior technical leaders ready to own the architecture of how Software Platform ships , the Integrated Continuous Release (ICR) pipeline, full automation of local and integrated end-to-end test environments, and enforcement of contract-verification models that every Lattice service will ship against.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and implement robust automated systems for both development, verification and deployment, ensuring the highest standards of quality and performance for our software tools land product offerings.

• Develop and own the reference environment that Lattice workflows are verified in ahead of release.

• Define, build and maintain comprehensive, representative full stack test environments, including hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) systems, with an understanding of how software performs on physical hardware and resource optimization.

• Drive the continuous integration of performance testing into CI/CD pipelines, establishing and enforcing performance baselines and championing reliability engineering best practices to proactively identify and prevent regressions across the entire software stack.

• Define and implement AI-enabled automation which enables us to find and fix issues early in the dev cycle, without impacting the developer experience.

Requirements:

• 15+ years of proven experience building automated verification suites at scale.

• Proficient at 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.

• Deep experience with Frontend and Backend services and architectures, and proven experience with these at scale.

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.

Salary Range: $166,000-$240,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations.

Benefits:

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

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