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Test Engineer, Maritime

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Surface Dominance - Engineering & Operations : Field Test Engineering
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Costa Mesa, California$112k - $149kPosted 2mo ago

About the role

Test Engineer to join Anduril’s Maritime team, focusing on system-level development testing, integration, and test planning for surface maritime platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Support the integration process of various subsystems, including sensors, navigation, propulsion, communication systems, autonomy software, and power systems, into a complete and fully functional surface platform
  • Work within a dynamic team of multidisciplinary engineers and specialists throughout the life of product design, integration, and test efforts
  • Support design and integration of surface platform subsystems, components and payloads, including managing interfaces
  • Responsible for the development, review, and execution of comprehensive test plans for development, integration, acceptance testing
  • Build, support and maintain a test and evaluation program that may be subject to government test & evaluation standards
  • Support day-to-day test operations for our products, platforms, or sub-assemblies, including conducting pre-mission testing, launch and recovery, vehicle tasking, and data analysis both internal and customer facing
  • Responsible for setting up, collecting and refining operational metrics
  • Support hands-on troubleshooting, repair, operation, and maintenance of surface maritime platforms in the field
  • Author and/or review detailed operational test reports to document the step-by-step execution of internal and customer facing efforts to test and evaluate the surface platforms and new capabilities
  • Support local sea testing and operations, including multi-day offshore operations
  • Support pre-mission and post-mission logistics required to successfully execute test operations
  • Participate in design reviews, requirements analysis, and system verification planning to ensure compliance with project goals and industry standard
  • Collaborate with external partners or customers in the integration and test phases, cataloging and addressing their requirements and ensuring successful integration of their payloads into the surface platform and of the system into the overall mission lifecycle
  • Support the implementation and maintain processes for maintaining configuration control, version control, documentation and overall safety throughout the entire development and test cycle, including land and sea based efforts for extended hours as required
  • Ability to travel (~30%) as required for test planning and execution

Qualifications

  • A genuine interest and 5+ years experience in systems engineering, integration, and test
  • Experience generating TRRs, Test Plans, Test Procedures, and Test Reports
  • Familiarity with concepts of mechanical engineering, software development and testing, electrical engineering, and control theory
  • Experience in field test and operationally focused environments
  • Knowledge of electronics troubleshooting and ability to use basic test equipment
  • Experience with Linux and command line interfaces as well as software debugging
  • Proficient in reading and understanding engineering drawings and specifications
  • Extremely organized and detail-oriented
  • Excellent verbal & written communication skills (effective for broad audiences)
  • A sincere commitment to a positive, inclusive, and collaborative culture
  • High-ownership and a bias toward action – if you see a problem, you want to solve and fix it
  • Ability to travel up to 30% of your time, with potential over 30% during key test campaigns/surges
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
  • In this role, you will be subject to pre-employment and randomized substance screening, as required by the Company.
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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