Senior Quality Engineer, Applied AI

The role

You will act as the quality and reliability lead within a senior AI development pod. You will design test strategies, validation approaches, and release readiness criteria for AI-enabled software and agentic workflows.

What you will do

• Act as the quality and reliability lead within a small, senior AI development pod
• Design and implement test strategies, validation approaches, and release readiness criteria
• Partner with software and AI engineers to identify failure modes
• Build confidence through automated testing, observability, instrumentation, and environment design
• Define practical standards for reliability, resiliency, debugging, and production operations
• Contribute to code, infrastructure, and tooling
• Support launch readiness, production issue response, and root cause analysis
• Evangelize engineering discipline in quality assurance, release engineering, and incident prevention

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, quality engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related role
• Experience building or operating reliable production software systems
• Technical fluency in modern software architectures, APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD, and cloud or platform infrastructure
• Experience working with frontier AI tooling, AI coding assistants, LLM-enabled applications, or agentic systems
• Ability to move between hands-on implementation and systems-level quality strategy
• Strong debugging, root cause analysis, and incident response instincts
• 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 supporting AI-first or AI-accelerated software development teams
• Experience with automated testing strategies for complex software products
• Experience with infrastructure as code, cloud platforms, observability stacks, release engineering, and production operations
• Experience in hyper growth startup-like environments
• Familiarity with enterprise systems and business process domains such as ERP, MES, WMS, CRM, finance systems, or manufacturing systems
• 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

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.