Senior Quality Engineer, Applied AI
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$191k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own automated system integration and end-to-end tests across multiple systems and product lines.
- Simulate production workloads and data and detect drift between test assumptions and production behavior.
- Use AI tooling to author, maintain, and triage tests and enable other teams to verify quality.
- Debug distributed failures across services, networks, and vendor boundaries and identify root causes.
- Set test strategy, release readiness criteria, and quality gates for the release train.
- Build observability, instrumentation, and test-environment strategies that produce actionable signals.
- Partner with engineering and business teams to move quality upstream into design and acceptance criteria.
- Contribute code, infrastructure, and tooling to improve developer feedback loops, test reliability, and production stability.
- Support launch readiness, production issue response, root cause analysis, and post-incident follow-through.
- Set technical testing standards through reviews, pairing, and hands-on example.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, software development engineering in test, site reliability engineering, quality engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related role.
- Demonstrated experience building and operating automated integration or end-to-end test suites for production systems, including environments, test data, and CI execution.
- Strong fluency in modern software architectures, APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD, and cloud or platform infrastructure.
- Experience debugging failures across system boundaries and performing root cause analysis and incident response.
- Experience with frontier AI tooling, AI coding assistants, or agentic systems and their quality and reliability challenges.
- Ability to combine hands-on implementation with systems-level quality strategy.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence technical and business 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 ERP, MES, WMS, PLM, or CRM workflows; production-like test data and load generation; Playwright or similar automation frameworks; AI-first engineering quality controls; infrastructure as code; cloud platforms; observability; release engineering; production operations; and hyper-growth startup environments.
- Preferred: eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.
Benefits
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits available at little to no cost to employees, supporting health and recovery.
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers as part of total compensation.
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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.