Senior Quality Engineer, Applied AI

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks an experienced Senior Quality Engineer for Mission Control to design automated system integration tests spanning ERP, MES, PLM, and WMS. You will simulate production workloads, validate end-to-end data flows, and enable rapid, reliable quality gates across the release train.

In this role you will apply AI-assisted testing, diagnose cross-system failures, and drive upstream quality with engineers and floor partners, delivering robust production readiness.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software eng, SWE in test, SRE, or related role in fast-paced settings.
• Experience building/operating automated end-to-end test suites for prod systems with CI.
• Strong fluency in modern architectures, APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD, and infra.
• Experience diagnosing cross-system failures with strong RCA and incident response instincts.
• Familiarity with frontier AI tooling or agentic systems and non-deterministic behavior challenges.
• Ability to balance hands-on work with high-level quality strategy and pragmatism.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated integration tests across product lines and systems.
• Simulate production workload/data to reflect real factory behavior and detect drift.
• Leverage AI tooling to author, maintain, and triage tests and enable others.
• Trace failures across service, network, and vendor boundaries to root cause.
• Set test strategy, release readiness criteria, and fast quality gates.
• Build observability and environment strategy to turn failures into signals.
• Collaborate with engineers and floor partners to raise quality upstream.
• Contribute code, infra, and tooling to improve feedback loops and stability.
• Support launch readiness, incident response, and post-incident follow-through.

Skills

End-to-end testing

Test automation

Distributed systems

Debugging & RCA

AI tooling familiarity

Hands-on coding

Technical communication

Security clearance eligibility

Education

BS in CS or related field

Tools

Playwright

CI/CD tooling

Cloud platforms

Observability stacks

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

About The Team

CorpTech Platform is the internal engineering force multiplier behind Anduril's corporate systems.

It drives CorpTech engineering forward through strategic investment in data platforms, software platforms, QA and release excellence, ERP engineering, and AI infrastructure.

We build the foundations that power both CorpOS, enabling Finance and Growth to operate with speed and precision, and ArsenalOS, the digital backbone of Anduril's hardware enterprise. By unifying systems, accelerating development velocity, and embedding intelligence into every layer, CorpTech Platform transforms how the company operates end to end.

We are also driving Anduril toward becoming an autonomous enterprise. Through initiatives like the Autonomous Software Factory, we are rethinking how software is built, tested, deployed, and evolved by integrating AI directly into the engineering lifecycle.

This is not a support function. It is a strategic engine. CorpTech Platform is how Anduril scales its business systems with the same rigor, speed, and adaptability as its mission critical products.

About The Job

Mission Control is the team responsible for quality assurance, release management, and incident management across the systems Anduril's factories run on. When a product line moves from design to a finished article, it crosses PLM, ERP, MES, and WMS, and the seams between them are where quality is won or lost. This role is the senior technical anchor for proving those seams hold. You will build the automated system integration tests that exercise real product lines end to end, simulate the workload and data of a live production environment, and make it possible for the engineers and operators closest to the work to verify quality themselves.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and own automated system integration tests that exercise Anduril product lines end to end across multiple systems, rather than validating single services in isolation.
• Simulate production workload and data for those product lines so tests reflect what the factory actually does, and build mechanisms that detect when the simulation drifts from reality.
• Leverage AI to author, maintain, and triage tests faster, and turn that into capability for others so the people closest to the problems can ensure quality themselves.
• Reason about distributed architecture and reconcile intent, implementation, and observed production reality, tracing failures across service, network, and vendor boundaries to the actual cause.
• Set test strategy, release readiness criteria, and quality gates for the release train, and make them fast enough that teams choose to use them.
• Build the observability, instrumentation, and environment strategy that turn a failing test or a production incident into a clear, actionable signal.
• Partner with the engineering teams that own the systems under test, and with business partners on the floor, to move quality upstream into design and acceptance criteria.
• Contribute directly in code, infrastructure, and tooling to improve developer feedback loops, test reliability, and production stability.
• Support launch readiness, production issue response, root cause analysis, and post-incident follow-through, with a bias toward eliminating classes of failure rather than repeatedly reacting to them.
• Set the technical standard for testing craft across Mission Control through review, pairing, and example, without becoming a bottleneck or a bureaucracy.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, software development engineering in test, site reliability engineering, quality engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related role in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating automated integration or end-to-end test suites for production systems, including ownership of environments, test data, and CI execution.
• Strong technical fluency in modern software architectures, APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD, and cloud or platform infrastructure.
• Experience reasoning about failures that cross system boundaries, with strong debugging, root cause analysis, and incident response instincts.
• Experience working with frontier AI tooling, AI coding assistants, or agentic systems, including awareness of the quality and reliability challenges these systems introduce.
• Ability to move between hands-on implementation and systems-level quality strategy, with sound judgment on where rigor is required versus where speed is appropriate.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior engineers, cross-functional stakeholders, and business partners on quality and reliability trade-offs.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing enterprise or manufacturing systems such as ERP, MES, WMS, PLM, or CRM, particularly workflows that span several of them.
• Experience generating or anonymizing production-like data and load for test environments, and detecting drift between test assumptions and production behavior.
• Experience with modern browser and API automation frameworks such as Playwright, along with strategies for keeping large suites fast and non-flaky.
• Experience supporting AI-first or AI-accelerated engineering teams, including designing quality controls around non-deterministic system behavior.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, cloud platforms, observability stacks, release engineering, and production operations.
• Experience in hyper growth startup-like environments, with demonstrated success balancing speed, ambiguity, and engineering rigor.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

US Salary Range

$191,000-253,000 USD

Benefits

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. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: 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.