Anduril Industries

Senior Quality Engineer, Applied AI

Anduril Industries$191K — $253K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in software or site reliability engineering in a fast-paced environment.
  • Proven ability to build and operate reliable production systems with a focus on testing and deployment.
  • Strong knowledge in modern software structures, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with AI tools and the unique challenges they present for quality and reliability.
  • Capable of balancing hands-on technical execution with strategic quality oversight.
  • Proficient in debugging and root cause analysis with a proactive failure prevention approach.
  • Excellent communication skills to influence technical discussions and decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead quality and reliability efforts within a senior AI development team addressing complex business challenges.
  • Develop test strategies and release criteria for AI software and automated workflows.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering teams to identify potential failure points.
  • Enhance solution confidence through automated testing and operational safeguards.
  • Establish reliability and debugging standards in an AI-centered development context.
  • Engage in coding and tooling to bolster delivery confidence and system stability.
  • Support production readiness and issue response for team outputs.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits available at minimal cost.
  • Support for recovery and personal development initiatives.
  • Opportunities for competitive equity grants as part of total compensation.
  • Commitment to employee support through a robust benefits package.
Full Job Description
ABOUT THE TEAM

CorpTech Platform is the internal engineering force multiplier behind Anduril's corporate systems.
It drives CorpTech engineering forward through strategic investment in data platforms, software platforms, QA and release excellence, ERP engineering, and AI infrastructure.

We build the foundations that power both CorpOS, enabling Finance and Growth to operate with speed and precision, and ArsenalOS, the digital backbone of Anduril's hardware enterprise. By unifying systems, accelerating development velocity, and embedding intelligence into every layer, CorpTech Platform transforms how the company operates end to end.

We are also driving Anduril toward becoming an autonomous enterprise. Through initiatives like the Autonomous Software Factory, we are rethinking how software is built, tested, deployed, and evolved by integrating AI directly into the engineering lifecycle.

This is not a support function. It is a strategic engine. CorpTech Platform is how Anduril scales its business systems with the same rigor, speed, and adaptability as its mission critical products.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Act as the quality and reliability lead within a small, senior AI development pod focused on solving novel, high-impact business and engineering problems.
  • Design and implement test strategies, validation approaches, and release readiness criteria for AI-enabled software, automation, and agentic workflows.
  • Partner closely with software and AI engineers to identify failure modes early across code, prompts, models, integrations, infrastructure, and user workflows.
  • Build confidence in fast-moving solutions 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 directly in code, infrastructure, and tooling where needed to improve delivery confidence, developer feedback loops, and production stability.
  • Support launch readiness, production issue response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement for front-facing systems delivered by the pod.
  • Evangelize strong engineering discipline in areas such as quality assurance, release engineering, infrastructure hygiene, and incident prevention without sacrificing speed.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, quality engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related role in a fast-paced environment.
  • Demonstrated experience building or operating reliable production software systems, including ownership of testing, observability, deployment confidence, and operational readiness.
  • 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, including awareness of the unique 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.
  • Strong debugging, root cause analysis, and incident response instincts, with a bias toward preventing classes of failures rather than repeatedly reacting to them.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior engineers and cross-functional stakeholders 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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience supporting AI-first or AI-accelerated software development teams, including designing quality controls around non-deterministic system behavior.
  • Experience with automated testing strategies spanning unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, and reliability testing 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, with demonstrated success balancing speed, ambiguity, and engineering rigor.
  • 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.


US Salary Range

$191,000-$253,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

About Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that develops advanced systems for the military. The company was founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, Trae Stephens, and Matt Grimm, and has since grown to become a major player in the defense industry. Anduril's products include autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and other advanced technologies that are designed to enhance military capabilities. The company has received significant funding from investors and has partnerships with several major defense contractors. Anduril is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
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200 employees
Industry
Founded
2017

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