# 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.

As the Director of Test & Evaluation – Robotics, you will provide executive and technical leadership across Anduril’s Test Operations, Test Engineering, and Test Automation teams.

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

Requirements:

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- flight test operations
- autonomous systems
- software and hardware integration
- leadership
- aviation regulations
- problem-solving
- communication

### 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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