# Director, Test & Evaluation, Robotics

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000-$292,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

The Director of Test & Evaluation – Robotics will provide executive and technical leadership across Anduril’s Test Operations, Test Engineering, and Test Automation teams. In this role, you will lead end to end test and evaluation across multi-domain unmanned hardware, driving the integration and validation of Lattice Command & Control (C2) and Collaborative Autonomy (CA) capabilities.

Responsibilities:

- Lead both the Flight Test Team and Test Engineering Team, providing technical guidance and mentorship

- Establish and refine flight test methodologies for evaluating mission autonomy capabilities using surrogate vehicles in fast-paced test environments

- Develop long-term capacity planning for flight test capabilities to support future product initiatives and company growth

- Drive the verification and validation (V&V) of Lattice C2 and Collaborative Autonomy behaviors

- Architect and scale automated SIL, HIL, and regression test pipelines, ensuring software changes are thoroughly vetted before deploying to physical hardware in the field

- Oversee live test execution, test infrastructure, range safety protocols, instrumentation, and real-time telemetry pipelines across test ranges

- Drive cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Program Management to align test strategies with product development roadmaps

- Cultivate a strong organizational foundation focused on safety standards, regulatory adherence, and performance

- Ensure compliance with FAA, FCC, and other regulatory requirements throughout all flight test operations

- Manage resource allocation, budgeting, and scheduling for flight test campaigns across multiple programs

- Create and implement standardized processes, metrics, and KPIs to measure test effectiveness and drive continuous improvement

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, robotics, or related technical field

- 10+ years of experience in testing unmanned aerial systems with at least 5 years in a leadership position

- Proven expertise in both software and hardware integration for complex autonomous systems

- Demonstrated success leading flight test operations as a Test Director for mission-critical platforms

- Strong understanding of aviation regulations and compliance requirements for unmanned systems

- Experience managing technical teams with diverse skill sets across operations and engineering

- Exceptional problem-solving abilities for troubleshooting complex hardware and software issues

- Outstanding communication skills for conveying technical concepts to stakeholders at all levels

- Flexibility to adapt to dynamic schedules and willingness to travel to test sites as required

- Current FAA Part 107 certification or ability to obtain one

Preferred Qualifications:

- Advanced degree in a relevant technical or management field

- Direct experience with multi-agent collaborative autonomy, swarming architectures, or distributed Command & Control (C2) systems

- Proficiency with modern software tools (Python, C++, Linux, CI/CD pipelines, Git) for automated data parsing and telemetry analytics

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance

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## Skills

### Required
- engineering
- computer science
- robotics
- autonomous systems
- flight test operations
- aviation regulations
- software and hardware integration

### Nice to have
- multi-agent collaborative autonomy
- swarming architectures
- distributed Command & Control (C2) systems
- Python
- C++
- Linux
- CI/CD pipelines
- Git

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