Lab & Integration Engineer

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 engineer and integrate on the 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. Every software release, mission systems integration and flight-test preparation runs through these rigs, and the rigs are being designed, brought up and put to work at the same time.

This is an individual-contributor engineering role. You will work for the Lab & Integration Lead alongside lab technicians, own specific rigs and lab subsystems end to end, and spend most of your time between the design tools, the bench and the integration floor. You will be trusted with real design and integration decisions early, and you will be expected to close them.

What You’ll Do

• Engineer the rigs. Develop and maintain rig designs within the lab architecture: block diagrams, rack and power layouts, network design, harness definitions and pin-to-pins, and rig interface control documents (rig-to-LRU, rig-to-sim, rig-to-ground-station). Review build drawings and work instructions before material is released.

• Bring rigs up. Plan and lead bring-up of the rigs you own: safe-to-mate, power-on and BIT, LRU checkout, network and time-sync verification, and host/sim reference-scenario runs. Work the readiness checklist to closure before a rig is declared operational.

• Own the HITL host and simulation integration. Integrate the real-time host, I/O, plant models and simulation with flight hardware. Characterize latency and timing, check simulation behaviour against reference data, and document what each rig can and cannot be used to show.

• Integrate on the rigs. Run integration for software releases and new hardware on the rigs: execute integration procedures, triage failures across software, avionics, mission systems and lab causes, write and drive discrepancy reports to closure, and run regression after each change.

• Hold configuration discipline. Maintain each rig’s configuration baseline with Configuration Management (LRU part and serial numbers, software and firmware loads, harness revisions, sim versions) and make sure every for-record run has a complete as-tested record.

• Capture data that holds up. Set up data recording and logging so results trace back to requirements and configuration. Build the scripts and tools that pull, check and summarize rig data for integration, qualification and flight-readiness reviews.

• Automate. Automate repetitive checkout, configuration capture and regression runs. Treat rig time as scarce: every manual hour removed is capacity returned to the program.

• Support capacity and planning. Provide rig-hour estimates, build and bring-up schedules, and long-lead material inputs for your rigs. Assess the rig changes each new hardware lot needs, and keep sustainment, spares and obsolescence plans current.

• Work safely and securely. Contribute to the lab hazard analysis and network and classified-lab accreditation for your rigs, and follow and improve the controls for hydraulics, high power, rotating machinery and classified operations.

• Raise the bar for the team. Write the procedures, checklists and lessons learned that let technicians and the next engineer work without you, and mentor technicians on troubleshooting and documentation.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in electrical, computer, aerospace or mechanical engineering, computer science, or a similar technical field.

• 3+ years of hands-on engineering in SIL, HIL, iron bird, avionics integration lab or flight-hardware integration and test for aircraft, missiles, space systems or comparable complex systems.

• Electrical and avionics integration skills: reading and producing schematics, harness definitions and pin-to-pins, MIL-DTL-38999-class connectors, safe-to-mate, and aircraft power distribution.

• Working knowledge of avionics data buses and networks such as Ethernet, MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, RS-422/485 and CAN, and of time synchronization (PTP, IRIG).

• Experience integrating or operating real-time HITL hosts, simulation, I/O and data-acquisition hardware.

• Proficiency in Python (or similar) and Linux for automation, data analysis and tooling.

• Confident with bench instrumentation and bus analyzers, and a structured approach to isolating faults across hardware, network and software.

• Experience producing controlled engineering records: rig or test configuration, as-run data, procedures and discrepancy reports.

• Clear written and verbal communication with software, hardware, test and program teams.

• Able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance; an active clearance is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with real-time simulation and HIL platforms (for example NI, dSPACE, Speedgoat or Concurrent) and with plant-model integration.

• Mission systems integration experience: EO/IR, electronic warfare, datalinks, crypto and key management, or C2 ground segments.

• Iron bird, hydraulic, flight-control actuation or power-system test experience.

• Lab CI and test automation: automated regression on hardware rigs, test frameworks and results dashboards.

• Lab network design and accreditation experience (RMF / ATO, JSIG).

• Familiarity with MIL-STD-704 and MIL-STD-461, and with linking verification evidence to a system model.

• Flight test or ground test support on a developmental aircraft program.

US Salary Range

$167,000 — $222,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits .

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