Software Systems Quality and Deployment Engineer

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of UAS threats. Working across product, engineering, business development, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems in challenging operational environments worldwide.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Software Systems Quality and Deployment Engineer on the Air and Ground Deterrence Software Engineering Team, you will be a critical part of ensuring that our software products comply with our software processes, standards, and safety requirements. You will own the operational aspects of ensuring the software is tested thoroughly, maintained appropriately, and deployed with efficiency to customer and development environments and edge systems. In the near term, this role is critical for delivery of major programs for the Air Defense business unit. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Coordinate the delivery of release candidates to Quality Assurance teams and Test and Evaluation teams with clear success criteria and traceability to requirements. You will work hand-in-hand with the Software Release Manager in this effort.
• Ensure compliance with defined software processes and standards
  • PR reviews, code scans, no dead code, test coverage, etc.
• Own software safety oversight and compliance
  • In coordination with Anduril System Safety team and Air Defense Systems Engineering team, coordinate traceability of safety significant and safety critical requirements and testing against identified levels of rigor that must be implemented and documented.
  • Develop and mechanize safety regression threads on every build to ensure safety requirement coverage.
  • Develop a deep understanding of MILSTD-882E and the Joint Software System Safety Engineering Handbook implementation guide.
• Oversee verification and validation of software releases through SITL, HITL, QA, and T&E interactions
  • Implement and manage automated testing and deployment processes in an established continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environment to ensure a release pipeline infrastructure that is gated on automated tests with high code coverage
    • Work with other software developers to improve their unit and regression test coverage
    • Define and develop software in the loop (SITL) and hardware in the loop (HITL) tests to validate system level performance and assure system quality
    • Utilize git and CI automations to execute nightly and automated builds and system checks, reacting and delegating fixes as issues are uncovered
  • Perform minor updates to existing Lattice simulation environments and manually run various sim tests to confirm system functionality.
  • Develop automated Continuous Integration pipelines through SW build tools (Github + Circle CI) to develop tests that ensure high test coverage per commit and release.
  • Oversee use of HITL assets for verification of releases
  • Monitor and enhance system reliability, performance, and security through automation and monitoring of metrics collected from SITL, HITL, flight test, and deployed operations.
    • Build out dashboards to demonstrate system performance, system maintenance and system improvements over time
• Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps with product-centric and platform-wide developers
• Develop data and log capture and analysis tools to communicate empirical outputs of QA and T&E efforts
• Develop processes and tools to inspect and maintain system configuration sets (Configuration Management of test and deployed assets)
• Support the team in maintaining rapid development while in parallel improving our processes, standards, testing infrastructure, and data-driven empirical evidence of end-to-end system performance
• This role will allow you to grow in your communication and leadership skills. We need people willing to deliver high quality documentation to Anduril leadership and customer stakeholders.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting
  • Ability to work with scripting tools (such as Python) for developing data capture and analysis tools for engineering insight
• Experienced in Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) roles with high familiarity of software processes, tools, and standards.
• Experience with Nix/NixOS.
• Proven experience in a test engineering role, demonstrating leadership and innovation.
• Experience implementing automated testing frameworks in software-in-the-loop (SITL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) environments.
• Experience in Agile methodologies.
• Experience with Unix/Linux tools for performance analysis and debugging problems (valgrind, perf, etc)
• Demonstrated mentorship and/or leadership skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and desire to interact with customers and company leadership.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% for test and integration efforts