Senior Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 161,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer to develop and deploy instrumentation and RF telemetry for high-stakes flight test programs. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure safety, reliability, and rapid deployment of autonomous systems in defense projects.

The role requires strong data acquisition expertise, experience with high-channel-count systems, and the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics Engineering or related field; or Radar Systems/Data Science with strong quantitative/mechanical grounding.
• 5+ years of embedded data acquisition systems experience in manned/unmanned aircraft.
• Strong data visualization using MATLAB, LabVIEW, Simulink to translate complex data into accessible visuals.
• Experience with high-channel-count (100-400 measurands) mechanical measurement systems and RF telemetry for near real-time display.
• Experience with grounding, bonding, shielding of instrumentation signals in multi-band RF environments.
• Experience with composite and exotic materials installations across flight test environments.
• Strong data science application to solve real-world problems and translate findings into actionable insights.
• Excellent communication and collaboration; ability to work with multidisciplinary teams; travel; extended hours; TS clearance eligible.

Responsibilities

• Perform requirements decomposition to select and install necessary flight test instrumentation and communicate insights to stakeholders.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with UAS engineers, customers, airworthiness experts, and program managers to inform safety of test and speed-to-ramp.
• Lead technical investigations to diagnose instrumentation and RF telemetry issues; propose solutions to improve reliability.
• Design analytics-driven customer-facing products showing system performance metrics and trend analysis across platforms.
• Design, fabricate, and install flight test instrumentation sensors and data paths into experimental aircraft; fabricate wire harnesses.
• Perform instrument calibrations and pre-flight checks as GO/NO-GO signatory.
• Operate and maintain telemetry auto-tracking Ground System using COTS software/hardware.
• Travel up to 50% to Anduril HQ and test sites in CA, NV, TX, OR for planning and execution.

Skills

Embedded data acquisition

Data visualization

RF telemetry design

Grounding/shielding

Collaboration

Travel readiness

Clearance eligibility

Education

BS: Electrical/Mechanical/Mechatronics or related

Radar Systems/Data Science background

Tools

MATLAB

LabVIEW

Simulink

Interactive Analysis and Display System (IADS)

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer to develop and deploy instrumentation and RF telemetry for high-stakes flight test programs. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure safety, reliability, and rapid deployment of autonomous systems in defense projects.

The role requires strong data acquisition expertise, experience with high-channel-count systems, and the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights for stakeholders.