# Staff Flight Test Engineer, Unmanned Air Vehicles

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,000-$220,000 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.

We are seeking a highly motivated flight test engineer with emphasis in developmental test of a new and revolutionary Group 5 UAS, and experience performing test engineering responsibilities and early prototype development.

## 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.

## Required Qualifications

- 12+ 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. May substitute equivalent engineering experience in lieu of education.

- 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

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

## Preferred Qualifications

- Prior experience with software code/script building using programming languages such as Go, Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, etc.

- 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
- UAS
- flight test engineering
- aero/performance
- loads/dynamics
- propulsion
- electrical

### Nice to have
- Go
- Java
- C++
- Python
- JavaScript
- software code/script building
- large UAS development
- Combined Test Force

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