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Senior Quality Engineer, Applied AI

Anduril· Corporate Technology : Corporate Technology Platform : Data Platform
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Costa Mesa, CA$191k - $253kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior technical anchor for program-level QA across product lines, responsible for automated end-to-end system integration tests, production-realistic workload simulations, and improving quality gates and observability within Anduril’s Mission Control team.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and own automated system integration tests that exercise Anduril product lines end to end across multiple systems, rather than validating single services in isolation.
  • Simulate production workload and data for those product lines so tests reflect what the factory actually does, and build mechanisms that detect when the simulation drifts from reality.
  • Leverage AI to author, maintain, and triage tests faster, and turn that into capability for others so the people closest to the problems can ensure quality themselves.
  • Reason about distributed architecture and reconcile intent, implementation, and observed production reality, tracing failures across service, network, and vendor boundaries to the actual cause.
  • Set test strategy, release readiness criteria, and quality gates for the release train, and make them fast enough that teams choose to use them.
  • Build the observability, instrumentation, and environment strategy that turn a failing test or a production incident into a clear, actionable signal.
  • Partner with the engineering teams that own the systems under test, and with business partners on the floor, to move quality upstream into design and acceptance criteria.
  • Contribute directly in 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, with a bias toward eliminating classes of failure rather than repeatedly reacting to them.
  • Set the technical standard for testing craft across Mission Control through review, pairing, and example, without becoming a bottleneck or a bureaucracy.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, software development engineering in test, site reliability engineering, quality engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related role in a fast-paced environment.
  • Demonstrated experience building and operating automated integration or end-to-end test suites for production systems, including ownership of environments, test data, and CI execution.
  • Strong technical fluency in modern software architectures, APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD, and cloud or platform infrastructure.
  • Experience reasoning about failures that cross system boundaries, with strong debugging, root cause analysis, and incident response instincts.
  • Experience working with frontier AI tooling, AI coding assistants, or agentic systems, including awareness of the quality and reliability challenges these systems introduce.
  • Ability to move between hands-on implementation and systems-level quality strategy, with sound judgment on where rigor is required versus where speed is appropriate.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior engineers, cross-functional stakeholders, and business partners on quality and reliability trade-offs.
  • Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.

Skills

Required:Automated system integration testingProduction workload simulationAI-assisted test creation and triageDistributed systems debuggingTest strategy & quality gatesObservability & instrumentationStakeholder collaborationCode, infrastructure, and tooling contributionsIncident response & RCAQuality craft leadership

Benefits

  • US Salary Range $191,000—$253,000 USD
  • Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
  • top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including health, recovery, and whatever comes next.
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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