Senior Flight Test Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA, Victorville, CA · Hardware Engineering : Test & Evaluation : Test & Evaluation

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking a Senior Flight Test Engineer for developmental test of a new UAS. The role involves planning, coordination, execution, and reporting of test programs, working with engineering teams, and ensuring safe operations. Experience with aircraft systems, test ranges, and military standards is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Perform senior-level, development flight test engineer activities for the Fury UAS; emphasis placed on resource planning, conducting ground and flight test, initial issue investigation, and process improvement/development.
  2. Lead and/or be a part of a team of flight test engineers, functional engineers, and program representatives responsible for conducting ground and flight test events at private, and government-owned test ranges.
  3. Collect test data and perform initial data analysis for the system under test.
  4. Work closely with Engineering to develop requirements, discuss test results, to include collected data and observations.
  5. Work in a safe manner in accordance with established operating procedures and practices.

Skills

Required

  • test conductor/director for developmental aircraft, weapons, or missile systems
  • requirements development
  • test planning
  • test execution
  • test reporting
  • aero/performance
  • loads/dynamics
  • propulsion
  • electrical
  • engineering concepts, principles, codes, and theory
  • MIL-STD-882E
  • MIL-STD-516C
  • MIL-STD-1553
  • MIL-STD-1760
  • AS5653
  • National Airspace System
  • UAS operating rules and regulations
  • computer and documentation experience
  • communication (written and verbal)
  • interpersonal skills
  • large aircraft development
  • Department of Defense (DoD) experience

Nice to have

  • Bias for action
  • managing individuals or teams
  • large UAS development
  • Combined Test Force or equivalent experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of experience as test conductor/director for developmental aircraft, weapons, or missile systems
  • Extensive experience as a test conductor/test director for developmental aircraft, weapon, or missile systems
  • Test engineering experience working with developmental systems of manned and/or unmanned aircraft to include requirements development, test planning and execution, and test reporting
  • Must have a complete understanding of engineering concepts, principles, codes, and theory; experience demonstrating a broad application of those concepts; and, expanding knowledge of principles, concepts, theory, and practices in related technical specialties.
  • Must possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly; apply them accurately; organize, schedule, and coordinate work phases; and determine the appropriate approach at the task level or, with assistance, at the project level to provide solutions to a range of complex problems.
  • Ability to immediately obtain a U.S. Top Secret-Level security clearance.