Sr. Manager, SEIT - Autonomous Rotorcraft

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries, Inc. in Costa Mesa seeks a Senior Manager, Systems Integration & Test for the Thunder program. You will lead integration and test across propulsion, avionics, batteries, mechanisms, structures, sensors, and payloads, shaping development velocity to deliver new designs within months.

You will drive agile governance, risk assessments, and TRRs, building reusable test environments and ensuring safety of integration work while collaborating with partners and end users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or higher in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering or aviation related technical discipline
• 10+ years experience in Systems Engineering, integration and test
• Experience in developing and operating HIL/HITL/IRON BIRD integration environments for flight vehicles
• Vehicle/System level integration and test experience, preferably with Group 4/5 uncrewed and autonomous platforms, including ground and flight test
• Experience in all facets of the test process including writing test plans and procedures, conducting risk assessments, mitigating hazards, running test readiness reviews, directing test events, and responding to unplanned occurrences
• Extremely organized and detail-oriented, excellent verbal & written communication skills
• A sincere commitment to a positive, inclusive, and collaborative culture
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance in United States

Responsibilities

• Deploy right-sized, Agile Systems Engineering governance approaches for rapid capability development efforts - with the right amount of process discipline and artifacts and support System Design Reviews (SDRs)
• Lead the use of ‘Test’ as a design tool to support component, system and subsystem maturation from discrete bench tests to production representative Vehicle, Mission and Support Systems
• Work with customers and end-users to evolve Concept of Operations (CONOPS) and the Product Life Cycle, developing inputs to high-level requirements informing key design decisions
• Develop and sustain highly representative Hardware In Lab (HIL) and Hardware In The Loop (HITL) physical integration environments – capable of ‘flying’ missions, as well as full-size geometry representative section demonstrators for payload development
• Focus on the safety of integration environments, ensuring that potential harm of team members can be eliminated by design
• Leverage crewed and uncrewed flying assets as surrogates for subsystem development in the representative environment
• Develop, review, and execute right-sized test plans across integration environments, efficiently capturing and reporting learnings, and making recommendations as inputs to design
• Conduct Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), and assess and mitigate hazards to ensure that testing can be safely and efficiently executed
• Support factory acceptance, ground and flight test of prototype and production representative Systems
• Liaise with partner organizations and local authorities to secure operational approvals (airspace, frequency, physical deconfliction, safety, and appropriate test range facilities)
• Conduct safety assessments with a pragmatic understanding of hazards and mitigations - holding the safety of team members above all else

Skills

Security clearance eligible

Education

Bachelor degree or higher in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering or aviation related technical discipline

Job description

Anduril Industries, Inc. in Costa Mesa seeks a Senior Manager, Systems Integration & Test for the Thunder program. You will lead integration and test across propulsion, avionics, batteries, mechanisms, structures, sensors, and payloads, shaping development velocity to deliver new designs within months.

You will drive agile governance, risk assessments, and TRRs, building reusable test environments and ensuring safety of integration work while collaborating with partners and end users.