# Senior Flight Test Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike

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

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## Description

As a Senior Flight Test Engineer, you will be responsible for owning and supporting the planning, coordination, execution, and reporting on all facets of the test program for a new and revolutionary Group 5 UAS. You will work heavily with the program leadership and a wide spectrum of cross-departments to help build a team focused on solving hard problems and changing the industry forever.

Key Responsibilities:

- Perform senior-level, development flight test engineer activities for the Fury UAS; emphasis placed on resource planning, conducting ground and flight test, initial issue investigation, and process improvement/development.

- Lead and/or be a part of a team of flight test engineers, functional engineers, and program representatives responsible for conducting ground and flight test events at private, and government-owned test ranges.

- Collect test data and perform initial data analysis for the system under test.

- Work closely with Engineering to develop requirements, discuss test results, to include collected data and observations.

- Work in a safe manner in accordance with established operating procedures and practices.

Requirements:

- 8+ years of experience as test conductor/director for developmental aircraft, weapons, or missile systems.

- A bachelor's degree or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution.

- Extensive experience as a test conductor/test director for developmental aircraft, weapon, or missile systems.

- Test engineering experience working with developmental systems of manned and/or unmanned aircraft to include requirements development, test planning and execution, and test reporting.

- Test and engineering experience in aero/performance, loads/dynamics, propulsion or electrical.

- Must have a complete understanding of engineering concepts, principles, codes, and theory; experience demonstrating a broad application of those concepts; and, expanding knowledge of principles, concepts, theory, and practices in related technical specialties.

- Previous experience with and current working knowledge of MIL-STD-882E, MIL-STD-516C, MIL-STD-1553, MIL-STD-1760, AS5653, etc.

- Previous expertise and working knowledge of the National Airspace System, government restricted airspace and UAS operating rules and regulations thereof.

- Must possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly; apply them accurately; organize, schedule, and coordinate work phases; and determine the appropriate approach at the task level or, with assistance, at the project level to provide solutions to a range of complex problems.

- Strong computer and documentation experience.

- Must have strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.

- Ability to work independently and as part of a team; able to perform complex tasks in one or more engineering areas.

- Experience with large aircraft development and working with the Department of Defense (DoD).

- Able to work extended hours as required.

- Ability to travel as required for test planning and execution.

- Ability to immediately obtain a U.S. Top Secret-Level security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Bias for action – if you see a problem, you want to solve and fix it.

- Experience managing individuals or teams of multiple individuals.

- Experience with large UAS development.

- Previous experience working within a Combined Test Force or equivalent.

## Skills

### Required
- MIL-STD-882E
- MIL-STD-516C
- MIL-STD-1553
- MIL-STD-1760
- AS5653
- Flight Test Engineering
- UAS Operating Rules and Regulations
- National Airspace System
- Test Planning and Execution
- Test Reporting
- Aero/Performance
- Loads/Dynamics
- Propulsion
- Electrical

### Nice to have
- Bias for Action
- Team Management
- Large UAS Development
- Combined Test Force

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