Integration and Test Lead, Omen

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><h2>Job Description</h2> <p>Anduril is seeking an Integration and Test Lead to join the Omen team at our Costa Mesa HQ. Omen is Anduril’s hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle (AAV) that packs the endurance, payload, and mission flexibility of much larger airplanes into a novel runway-independent Group 3 platform. Omen can operate from ship decks, beaches, or remote island clearings, providing true runway independence and freedom of maneuver across defense and civilian domains. Omen is the first tail-sitter aircraft with a mass-production contract, with an order of 50 systems representing a decisive investment that anchors production and accelerates the development of future systems.<br><br>You will work on new aircraft development, including propulsion systems, avionics, batteries, mechanisms, structures, sensors and payloads, in a lean, high-ownership culture where you directly shape the product and operate at a velocity to fly new designs within months, not years.<br><br><strong>WHAT YOU’LL DO</strong></p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Develop and sustain highly representative Hardware In Lab (HIL) and Hardware In The Loop (HITL) physical integration environments – capable of ‘flying’ missions</li> <li>Focus on the safety of integration environments, ensuring that potential harm of team members can be eliminated by design</li> <li>Leverage crewed and uncrewed flying assets as surrogates for subsystem development in the representative environment</li> <li>Develop, review, and execute right-sized test plans across integration environments, efficiently capturing and reporting learnings, and making recommendations as inputs to design</li> <li>Conduct Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), and assess and mitigate hazards to ensure that testing can be safely and efficiently executed</li> <li>Implement and maintain processes for configuration control of integration environments</li> <li>Support factory acceptance, ground and flight test of prototype and production representative Systems</li> </ul> <p><strong>REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND ATTRIBUTES </strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor degree or higher in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering or aviation related technical discipline</li> <li>10+ years experience in Systems Engineering, integration and test</li> <li>Experience in developing and operating HIL/HITL/IRON BIRD environments for flight vehicles</li> <li>Vehicle/System level integration and test experience, preferably with Group 3 or larger uncrewed and autonomous platforms. Flight test experience an advantage.</li> <li>Adept at working safely with high voltage systems, including integration, checkout and test</li> <li>Extensive knowledge of electronics/communications/integration troubleshooting and ability to use identify and operate appropriate diagnostics instruments. Experienced in debug of common protocols such as CAN/Ethernet/Serial.</li> <li>Experience with Linux and command line interface as well as software debugging</li> <li>Practiced in selecting, installing and ope ... (truncated, view full listing at source)