Senior Quality Engineer, Applied AI

Costa Mesa, California, United States. Posted a month ago

The role

You will design and own automated system integration tests that exercise product lines across multiple systems. You will simulate production workloads, leverage AI for test authoring, and set quality gates for the release train.

What you will do

Design, build, and own automated system integration tests across multiple systems.
Simulate production workload and data for product lines.
Leverage AI to author, maintain, and triage tests.
Reason about distributed architecture and trace failures across boundaries.
Set test strategy, release readiness criteria, and quality gates.
Build observability, instrumentation, and environment strategy.
Partner with engineering and business partners to move quality upstream.
Contribute to code, infrastructure, and tooling.
Support launch readiness, production issue response, and root cause analysis.
Set the technical standard for testing craft through review and pairing.

Required 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
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.
Ability to move between hands-on implementation and systems-level quality strategy.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
U.S. Person status is required.

Nice to have

Experience testing enterprise or manufacturing systems such as ERP, MES, WMS, PLM, or CRM.
Experience generating or anonymizing production-like data and load for test environments.
Experience with modern browser and API automation frameworks such as Playwright.
Experience supporting AI-first or AI-accelerated engineering teams.
Experience with infrastructure as code, cloud platforms, observability stacks, release engineering, and production operations.
Experience in hyper growth startup-like environments.
Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

Benefits

Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

Before you apply

U.S. Person status is required to access export controlled data.
By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening.

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Its family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.