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 for AI-enabled software, automation, and agentic workflows
• Partner with software and AI engineers to identify failure modes across code, prompts, models, integrations, infrastructure, and user workflows
• Build confidence through automated testing, observability, instrumentation, environment design, and operational safeguards
• Help define practical standards for reliability, resiliency, debugging, and production operations in an AI-first development model
• Contribute to code, infrastructure, and tooling to improve delivery confidence and production stability
• Support launch readiness, production issue response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
• Evangelize engineering discipline in quality assurance, release engineering, infrastructure hygiene, and incident prevention

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, quality engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related role
• Demonstrated experience building or operating reliable production software systems
• Strong 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 spanning unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, and reliability testing
• 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
• 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.