Senior Quality Engineer, Applied AI
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$146k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead quality and reliability efforts for a senior AI development pod.
- Design test strategies, validation approaches, and release readiness criteria for AI-enabled software, automation, and agentic workflows.
- Partner with software and AI engineers to identify failure modes across code, prompts, models, integrations, infrastructure, and user workflows.
- Build automated testing, observability, instrumentation, environment design, and operational safeguards.
- Define standards for reliability, resiliency, debugging, and production operations in an AI-first development model.
- Contribute code, infrastructure, and tooling to improve delivery confidence, developer feedback loops, and production stability.
- Support launch readiness, production issue response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Promote quality assurance, release engineering, infrastructure hygiene, and incident prevention.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, quality engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related role.
- Experience building or operating reliable production software systems with ownership of testing, observability, deployment confidence, and operational readiness.
- Strong technical fluency in software architectures, APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD, and cloud or platform infrastructure.
- Experience with frontier AI tooling, AI coding assistants, LLM-enabled applications, or agentic systems.
- Ability to combine hands-on implementation with systems-level quality strategy.
- Strong debugging, root cause analysis, and incident response skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to influence senior engineers and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- U.S. Person status is required to access export-controlled data.
- Preferred: experience with AI-first development teams, non-deterministic system quality controls, automated unit/integration/end-to-end/performance/reliability testing, infrastructure as code, cloud platforms, observability stacks, release engineering, production operations, and enterprise systems.
- Preferred: experience in hyper-growth or startup-like environments and familiarity with ERP, MES, WMS, CRM, finance, or manufacturing systems.
- Preferred: eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive comprehensive competitive benefits available at little to no cost.
- The role offers highly competitive equity grants for the majority of full-time offers.
- The base salary range is $146,000–$194,000 USD.
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About Anduril Industries
Anduril is not a traditional defense contractor. We are shaping the future of defense, transforming US & allied military capabilities with advanced technology. We emphasize speed and results and control our products from start to finish, including funding R&D to selling finished products off the shelf. Today, Anduril is in a rapid growth phase, deploying technology in diverse locations and developing path-making products that will change defense forever. We believe that everyone at Anduril can be a catalyst. Your perspective can change lives, and we want to help you make your mark. Our team includes thinkers and doers working interdependently. We bring the brightest minds and best-in-class talent together with veterans who have lived the problems of our warfighters. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in the real world, we want you at Anduril. With offices in Orange County, Washington DC, Seattle, Boston, Atlanta, London, and Sydney, our reach is wide. Check out our careers page at https://www.anduril.com/careers or send us an email at careers@anduril.com.