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.

About the Team

Platform Engineering & Integration (PEI) is the Chief Engineering integration function that brings strong subsystems together into a deployable platform. PEI owns the seams: platform architecture coherence, cross-domain interfaces, integration risk, verification strategy, configuration maturity and readiness evidence across multiple autonomous airpower programs. The Platform Integration pillar owns the integration roadmap and its sequencing, the integration environments, the integrated build, and readiness for test and flight. We treat laboratories and rigs as capacity, not only as usage, and the most valuable thing we can say about any environment is what it actually proves and, explicitly, what it does not.

About the Role

You will be the technical lead for the integration lab fleet behind our flagship autonomous air vehicle: software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop rigs for vehicle management, flight controls and mission systems, plus an iron bird with hydraulics, loaded actuation and power. The fleet is being built and brought up now, on dates the first-flight path depends on, and it will carry every software release through production lots.

This is a player-coach role with design authority. You will spend real time at the bench, hold the design bar for every rig, and lead a small team of lab and integration engineers. Rig build, operation and sustainment teams execute the hardware; software V&V runs qualification tests; Test owns test execution; functional teams own their LRUs. You own the lab as a system: its architecture, its configuration, its capacity and its readiness. What you build on this program becomes the lab playbook the next program inherits.

What You’ll Do

Own the lab architecture and rig design. Define and baseline the lab architecture: rig block diagrams, lab network, HITL host and simulation, data recording, and the rig interfaces (rig-to-LRU, rig-to-sim, rig-to-ground-station). Provide design oversight of every rig build, reviewing chassis, rack, power, harness and hydraulic interface designs before material is released, so rigs are built to an architecture rather than assembled one at a time.
Lead bring-up at the bench. Be hands-on through first light of each rig: safe-to-mate, power-on and BIT, LRU checkout, and host/sim reference-scenario runs. Debug across hardware, harness, network and software boundaries, and teach the team to do the same.
Define what “operational” means. Own a single rig operational-readiness checklist, agreed with the build team, and run the readiness review before any rig is declared operational. Pre-define fallback configurations (engineering LRUs, predecessor rigs) and the trigger for using them when a dependency slips.
Keep every rig under configuration control. Baseline each rig’s configuration (LRU part and serial numbers, software and firmware versions, harness revisions, sim and model versions) with Configuration Management, audit it before the first for-record run, and record as-tested configuration for every formal run. Problems are discussed against a named build, not against someone’s bench.
Own lab capacity and the integrated lab schedule. Model rig-hours demanded against rig-hours available by month. Build and run the integrated, rig-by-week schedule across software qualification, mission systems integration, iron bird integration and flight-test support, and run the weekly Lab & Integration board that resolves conflicts and closes decisions.