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Anduril Industries

Senior Test Automation Engineer

Anduril Industries
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onsite senior full-time $146,000-$210,000 USD Costa Mesa, California, United States

First indexed 11 May 2026

Description

Job Title: Senior Test Automation Engineer

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. As a Senior Test Automation Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality, traceability, and rapid deployment of our software solutions.

About the Team The Software Platform Foundations team at Anduril is dedicated to building the foundational systems that empower our engineering teams to develop, test, and deploy cutting-edge defense technology with unparalleled efficiency and reliability.

About the Role As the Senior Test Automation Engineer, you will work within a complex ecosystem where architectural decisions have concrete, measurable consequences and correctness matters. This role is open to experienced engineers ready to own a major piece of how Software Platform ships.

Responsibilities

  • Help build and implement robust automated systems for both development, verification and deployment, ensuring the highest standards of quality and performance for our software tools land product offerings.
  • Develop and maintain the reference environment that Lattice workflows are verified in ahead of release.
  • Build and maintain comprehensive, representative test environments, including hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) systems, with an understanding of how software performs on physical hardware and resource optimization.
  • Implement critical software interfaces and product features that facilitate seamless, end-to-end testing across complex systems.
  • Maintain and improve our integration of performance testing into CI/CD pipelines, establishing and enforcing performance baselines and championing reliability engineering best practices to proactively identify and prevent regressions across the entire software stack.
  • Implement AI-enabled automation which enables us to find and fix issues early in the dev cycle, without impacting the developer experience.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building automated verification suites at scale.
  • DevOps practices, CI/CD pipeline development (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), SRE principles, automated testing frameworks, scripting for automation, understanding of software development lifecycles.
  • Hands-on experience automating Hardware-in-The-Loop (HITL), and Software-in-The-Loop (SITL) engineering and utilization in production release process.
  • Expertise in developing and implementing various software development tests, including automated regression testing, unit testing, and integration testing.
  • Proficiency in Python for automation, scripting, and system development.
  • Professional experience with containerization workflows and Terraform.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical industry experience.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
  • NixOS experience.
  • Experience working in a regulated industry or with systems requiring high reliability and traceability.

Salary The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.

Benefits At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

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