Lead HITL Test Engineer — Autonomy & Payloads

Telemetry Today LLC; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a lead Test Engineer for payload and autonomy systems. You will own HITL benches, set test strategy across simulation and real hardware, and drive to find issues early rather than at sea.

Reporting to the Payload Lead, you will build cross-functional teams, develop automated regression suites, and ensure traceability from requirements to validation. This role emphasizes hands-on hardware and software integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering or computer science discipline.
• 7+ years in test engineering, integration and test, or test infrastructure development.
• Demonstrated ownership of a hardware-in-the-loop environment for a complex system.
• Strong software skills — Python plus C++ or Rust — for test automation and simulators.

Responsibilities

• Own HITL bench architecture, build-out, and operation for payload and autonomy testing.
• Define test strategy spanning unit, SITL, HITL, and at-sea validation.
• Build hardware and software simulators for payloads, sensors, and vehicle subsystems.
• Develop automated regression suites that run against real hardware.
• Own test instrumentation, data capture, and results analysis tooling.
• Lead test execution for payload integration campaigns and support at-sea events.
• Drive defect triage and root cause analysis from test findings back into engineering.
• Set test coverage standards and define what must pass before hardware goes to sea.
• Travel up to 30% to test sites and at-sea events.
• Responsible/own requirements validation and traceability matrix
• Making sure milestones/boxes are checked
• Partnering with systems engineering

Skills

Python

C++/Rust

Test automation

Hardware-in-the-loop

Lab debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree (engineering/CS)

Tools

Simulators

DAQ systems

CI pipelines

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a lead Test Engineer for payload and autonomy systems. You will own HITL benches, set test strategy across simulation and real hardware, and drive to find issues early rather than at sea.

Reporting to the Payload Lead, you will build cross-functional teams, develop automated regression suites, and ensure traceability from requirements to validation. This role emphasizes hands-on hardware and software integration.