# 2027 Early Career Flight Test Engineer

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,000-$114,000 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.

The Test and Evaluation team at Anduril plays a crucial role in ensuring that every product meets the highest standards of performance and reliability.

As a Flight Test Engineer, you will work on T&E test programs from start to finish, coordinate and execute test events, design and implement test plans, analyze data, and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

- Work on T&E test programs from start to finish and support existing test programs

- Coordinate, plan, and execute test events for mission autonomy capabilities utilizing surrogate vehicles

- Design and implement test plans that challenge and verify the capabilities of autonomous systems in a variety of simulated mission profiles

- Analyze data from tests to validate system performance and identify areas for improvement

- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, hardware engineers, and product managers, to define test requirements and ensure alignment with system capabilities and mission objectives

- Drive end-to-end test management by shaping program requirements, designing comprehensive test plans, leading execution efforts, analyzing complex data, and delivering clear, concise reports to cross-functional and program teams

- Coordinate with private and government partners to test and evaluate systems and software and ensure test objectives are met

- Communicate effectively with government leaders, cross-functional teams, and internal company leadership

Requirements:

- Must be pursuing or have recently completed a bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, computer science, robotics, or a related technical field

- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities; U.S. clearance eligibility may be required depending on program

- Able to start full time in 2027

Preferred Qualifications:

- Demonstrated ability in developing and executing test plans for complex systems within aggressive timelines

- Proven experience coordinating and executing complex test events

- Experience developing metrics and performance dashboards

- Proven track record of working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to achieve project milestones and deliverables

- Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively articulating technical challenges and solutions to a diverse audience

- Ability to engage and communicate with military and government customers

- Willingness to work flexible hours and travel to various testing locations as required

- Direct experience in the development, testing, and deployment of autonomy systems in a defense or aerospace context

- Familiarity with FAA, FCC, and other relevant regulations

- Hands-on experience with simulation environments and tools used for testing autonomous systems

- Familiarity with software development practices and experience with programming languages used in autonomy and robotics (e.g., Python, C++, ROS)

- Knowledge of current industry and military standards related to unmanned aerial systems and their operation within national airspace

Benefits:

- Highly competitive equity grants

- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive health, recovery, and other support

## Skills

### Required
- engineering
- computer science
- robotics
- autonomous systems
- software development

### Nice to have
- test planning
- data analysis
- communication
- project management
- simulation environments
- Python
- C++
- ROS

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