Senior Seit Engineer

Anduril Anduril · Defense · London, United Kingdom · Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike - Engineering & Operations : Systems Engineering

This role is for a Senior SEIT Engineer at Anduril, a defense technology company. The engineer will focus on the 'Right Side' of the Systems V, leading the integration, testing, and fielding of complex hardware and software systems, including AI-powered components. The goal is to ensure systems are validated for customer use cases and become robust, field-ready capabilities. This involves hands-on debugging, anomaly hunting, and driving product improvements through rigorous testing and integration.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the hands-on integration of complex, heterogenous hardware (legacy platforms, 3rd-party sensors, and internal products) and software. Prove the baseline end-to-end data flow first, then scale the complexity.
  2. You are the ultimate technical authority for Verification, Validation (V&V), and fielding. You will translate Systems Readiness Reviews (SRRs) into Systems Requirements Documents (SRDs) and SRDs into aggressive, real-world campaigns.
  3. Take Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and prove them on the bench and in the water. When a third-party "black box" doesn't play nice with our network, you are the primary investigator debugging the physical, electrical, and data boundaries.
  4. Act as the lead anomaly hunter. Conduct multidisciplinary triage across mechanical, electrical, software, and network domains during integration and field testing.
  5. Partner directly with TPMs (who own schedule) to balance technical risk and resource allocation. Feed ruthless, data-driven feedback loops back to the SWEs and Left-Side SEs to drive immediate product improvements.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of rigorous Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test experience
  • heavy emphasis on the Right Side of the V (subsystem integration, HITL/SITL testing, V&V, and field execution)
  • proven track record of taking complex, multi-domain systems from the lab bench to operational environments
  • making disparate systems talk
  • Hands-on DNA
  • reading a Python script
  • parsing a JSON payload
  • debugging a serial connection
  • analyzing network traffic (Wireshark, TCP/IP, UDP)
  • acting as the technical "glue" between highly specialized software, electrical, and mechanical engineering teams
  • running formal customer sell-off milestones (FAT, SAT)
  • fielding products in unforgiving environments
  • authorized to work in the United Kingdom

Nice to have

  • Experience operating, integrating, and troubleshooting complex systems in a maritime or subsea environment
  • Proficiency in scripting and data analysis tools (Python, bash, MATLAB) to rapidly parse logs, automate test rigs, and visualize system performance in the field
  • Familiarity with Linux operating systems, RTOSes, and edge-compute architectures
  • Familiarity with building and utilizing Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL) and Software-in-the-Loop (SITL) test infrastructures
  • Experience with subsea operational procedures, launch and recovery systems (LARS), and offshore test execution

What the JD emphasized

  • own the execution and reality-check
  • anchor is firmly planted on the "Right Side"
  • fastest path to getting a baseline, end-to-end system working in the real world
  • validated for the customer’s use case
  • relentlessly iterate to make it robust
  • smash them into rigorous mathematical and physical reality
  • diagnoses the root cause, and drives the solution
  • high-velocity, hardware-rich environments
  • ultimate metric is "execution"
  • 8+ years of rigorous Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test experience, with a heavy emphasis on the Right Side of the V
  • proven track record of taking complex, multi-domain systems from the lab bench to operational environments at a breakneck pace
  • must know how to make disparate systems talk
  • Hands-on DNA
  • customer sell-off milestones
  • fielding products in unforgiving environments

Other signals

  • AI-powered operating system
  • autonomy
  • computer vision
  • sensor fusion
  • networking technology
  • end-to-end system working in the real world
  • validated for the customer’s use case
  • hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) rigs
  • customer sell-off milestones