Senior Robotics Test Infrastructure Engineer (SITL/HITL)

Anduril Industries; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA seeks a Senior Software Engineer to own simulation and hardware test infrastructure for SITL/HITL environments. You will build whole-system tests for robotic towers and ensure CI pipelines keep pace with hardware updates.

Design scalable test frameworks, capture logs and artifacts for root-cause analysis, and partner with firmware, platform, and manufacturing teams to stand up new benches.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering focusing on test infrastructure or hardware-integrated systems.
• Proficiency in Python for test authoring; working ability in Rust or C++ to read/debug services.
• Experience automating tests against physical hardware: provisioning, remote power, consoles, network boot.
• Strong CI/CD engineering skills with hardware resource contention and scheduled pipelines.
• Experience with declarative configuration and reproducible builds (Nix/NixOS).
• Solid Linux fundamentals: systemd, networking, filesystems, boot.
• Ability to decide which tests are worth cost and address flaky tests.
• US person status and eligibility for US security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own and grow SITL environments: add variants, scenarios, and keep pipelines efficient.
• Build out functional coverage on HITL benches: motion control, sensor bring-up, firmware updates, failover.
• Own CI integration end-to-end: scheduling, dependencies, artifact and log capture, result reporting.
• Grow test platform as product lines evolve; add new compute generations and variants.
• Make failures diagnosable without touching the rig; enhance log and artifact capture.
• Partner with hardware, firmware, and manufacturing to stand up HITL benches and fixtures.

Skills

Python

Rust or C++

CI/CD

Linux

Automation testing

Tools

Nix/NixOS

Bazel

Buildroot

Yocto

Terraform

Ansible

Pulumi

Job description

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA seeks a Senior Software Engineer to own simulation and hardware test infrastructure for SITL/HITL environments. You will build whole-system tests for robotic towers and ensure CI pipelines keep pace with hardware updates.

Design scalable test frameworks, capture logs and artifacts for root-cause analysis, and partner with firmware, platform, and manufacturing teams to stand up new benches.