# Principal Test & Evaluation Engineer - Networked Battlefield Systems

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**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.

We are seeking a Principal Test Engineer to serve as the senior-most individual-contributor technical authority for test and evaluation across Connected Warfare's portfolio.

**Overview** The Test & Evaluation Engineering Team at Anduril works across the entire spectrum of products and business lines, as well as all flight operations and test range management.

**Responsibilities**

- Serve as the senior technical authority on test strategy across most of Connected Warfare's applications, providing technical oversight and support to the teams running the division's most complex, highest-risk, or multi-system test campaigns.

- Review and help program teams strengthen verification strategies , requirements-based, scenario-based, and operationally relevant , ensuring they scale across CW's software-enabled hardware and pure-software systems and properly incorporate customer-required standards and metrics.

- Act as connective tissue across Connected Warfare's individual test programs: identify where one program's test infrastructure, tooling, instrumentation, or lessons learned should be reused elsewhere in the division, and work with program teams to drive that reuse.

- Provide technical mentorship and escalation support to Staff and Lead Test Engineers running individual program test campaigns , reviewing test plans, execution approach, and reporting across developmental test, system integration (HIL/SIL), and operational assessment events.

- Directly support T&E Test Process execution, representing CW's test posture with credibility to government and program stakeholders.

- Work with teams to confirm traceability from requirements through verification and validation results across CW programs, and help define and monitor test coverage, requirements verification, and defect closure metrics at a division level.

- Support root-cause investigation on the hardest test findings and system anomalies, partnering directly with engineering to resolve issues that cross system or program boundaries.

- Represent Connected Warfare T&E in engineering design reviews and technical exchanges with government customers and partner organizations as needed.

- Contribute to the technical hiring and onboarding of test engineers across Connected Warfare.

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

- 10-14+ years of experience in system-level test and evaluation of integrated hardware/software systems.

- Demonstrated technical depth across multiple Connected Warfare-relevant systems.

- Proven track record across the full test lifecycle.

- Strong experience with RF communications, tactical datalinks, and networked C2 systems in DoD operational environments.

- Demonstrated ability to mentor and technically direct other test engineers.

- Deep familiarity with DoD and industry test processes.

- Skilled in assessing and reporting on test metrics.

- Excellent communication and technical presentation skills.

- Ability to travel periodically.

- Active or immediately eligible for a U.S. Secret security clearance.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Master's degree in Systems Engineering or a related technical field.

- Prior experience as Test Lead across multiple DoD programs.

- Knowledge of EMI/EMC testing, environmental testing, and power/avionics standards.

- Experience helping teams build or scale test automation frameworks.

- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and hardware-in-the-loop test environments.

- Experience conducting test activities in remote, austere, or tactical operational settings.

- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance.

**Benefits** Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive health insurance, retirement savings plans, and paid time off.

## Skills

### Required
- System-level test and evaluation
- Integrated hardware/software systems
- RF communications
- Tactical datalinks
- Networked C2 systems
- DoD test processes
- Test metrics assessment
- Technical presentation
- Security clearance

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in Systems Engineering
- Test Lead experience
- EMI/EMC testing
- Environmental testing
- Power/avionics standards
- Test automation frameworks
- CI/CD pipelines
- Hardware-in-the-loop test environments
- Top Secret/SCI clearance

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