# Senior Development Test Engineer - Drones

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Development Test Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa, California.

In this role, you will be responsible for performing hardware testing on a variety of systems and structures, managing test campaigns, developing procedures, sequences, and software.

### Responsibilities

- Execute structural, dynamic, and environmental testing on drones, missiles, and spaceflight hardware

- Plan, develop, and execute hardware test campaigns across development and qualification phases, ensuring test scope and methodology align with product requirements and program milestones

- Mentor and provide technical oversight to junior test engineers, including reviewing test procedures, guiding root cause analysis, and reviewing test setup

- Coordinate cross-functionally with responsible engineers from respective programs to define test objectives, acceptance criteria, and risk prioritization for hardware builds

- Establish and lead Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs) with engineering teams, ensuring test articles, instrumentation, facilities, and procedures are fully vetted before execution

- Communicate test status, risks, and results to program leadership and cross-functional stakeholders through regular briefings and written summaries

- Lead test campaigns including test plan creation, system activation, test operations, data review, and equipment design/fabrication

- Generate work instructions to direct and instruct technicians in the fabrication and integration of test articles and equipment

- Operate and troubleshoot data acquisition and control systems, wiring, and instrumentation, as well as thermal chambers, electrodynamics shakers, and fluid power systems

- Automate repetitive test operations to improve efficiency and safety

### Required Qualifications

- 5+ years of professional experience in a related engineering field

- Experience in an immersive interdisciplinary technical project (collegiate project teams or professional settings)

- Experience in hardware automation and software-hardware communication/integration

- High competence with, and fluid use of engineering first principles

- BS, MS or PhD in an engineering discipline

- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities

- Must be able to perform physical efforts including standing for extended periods and lifting and carrying material or equipment up to 25 lbs unassisted

### Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of hazardous or pressurized systems (cryogenics, hydraulics, jet fuels, and energy storage systems)

- Familiarity with instrumentation and control components (accelerometers, load cells, thermocouples, pressure transducers, strain gauges, RTDs, and others)

- Familiarity with industry-standard test guidance - MIL-STD-810, SMC-S-016, NASA GEVS

- Proficiency in at least one coding language (Python, Matlab, etc.)

- Experience with 3D modeling software and PLM (Siemens NX, Teamcenter, etc.)

- Ability to integrate electronic components into mechanical designs (motors, controllers, sensors, etc.)

- Experience with machining, sheet metal, and 3D printing

### Benefits

Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, including top-tier benefits for full-time employees.

## Skills

### Required
- hardware testing
- test campaign management
- software development
- engineering first principles
- hardware automation
- software-hardware communication/integration

### Nice to have
- hazardous systems
- instrumentation and control components
- MIL-STD-810
- SMC-S-016
- NASA GEVS
- coding languages
- 3D modeling software
- PLM
- electronic component integration
- machining
- sheet metal
- 3D printing

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