Description
We are seeking a dynamic and highly motivated Senior Flight Test Engineer to join our team in Reston, Virginia. As a Senior Flight Test Engineer, you will support the Anduril Frontier Systems division with your technical expertise and foster strategic collaboration across various teams. You will work closely with program leadership, supporting companies, and government partners to achieve T&E goals and help guide and perform the completion of test activities. Your responsibilities will include system level T&E of hardware and software, conducting ground and flight testing, process improvement/development, and participating in technical test reviews. You will also support execution of testing at private and government-owned test ranges, work closely with Engineering to discuss test results, collect and perform initial test data analysis for the system under test, and work in a safe manner in accordance with established operating procedures and practices.
The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution, current Top Secret Security Clearance, and 8+ years of test engineering experience or comparable skill. You should be able to travel as required for planning and testing (~25-50%), execute the full test engineering process for a System-of-Systems (requirements, test planning, readiness reviews, safety reviews, test execution, test reporting, etc.) with little to no oversight, produce customer-facing test deliverables (test plans, test reports, data analysis, etc.), and articulate deliverables to a variety of stakeholders. Experience as a test conductor, test director, or similar role while executing testing is also required.
Preferred qualifications include experience with the Department of Defense and/or Intelligence Community, working with the National Airspace System, UAS regulations, or other flight-related regulations, working with test pilots/operators, utilizing a Linux Operating System (Ubuntu, Debian, etc) or using Command Line Interface with another operating system, hobbyist R/C, electronics experience, and/or rapid-prototyping experience (soldering, harnessing, power supply, etc), familiarity with or willingness to learn flight control software platforms like PX4 and ArduPilot, familiarity with or willingness to learn QGroundControl, Mission Planner, or similar Ground Control Station software applications, and possession of a FAA part 107 certificate.