Anduril Industries
Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer
About this role
Anduril seeks a Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer to design, install, and validate advanced telemetry and data acquisition systems for Group 5 unmanned aircraft. You'll lead technical investigations, collaborate across disciplines, and travel to test sites to ensure mission-critical systems perform reliably in high-stakes defense environments.
What you'll do
- Decompose requirements and select flight test instrumentation using digital tools, communicating insights to stakeholders
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, customers, and program management on safety and strategic decisions
- Diagnose instrumentation and RF telemetry issues and implement solutions to improve system reliability
- Design and install instrumentation sensors, data paths, and equipment into experimental aircraft, including wire harnesses and novel fabrication approaches
- Create analytics-driven customer-facing products that display performance metrics and trend analysis
- Perform calibrations and pre-flight checks as a GO/NO-GO flight decision approver; operate telemetry ground tracking systems
What they're looking for
- Embedded data acquisition systems for aircraft
- High channel count mechanical measurement systems (100-400 measurands)
- RF telemetry architecture and implementation
- Data visualization and analytical tools (MATLAB, LabVIEW, Simulink, IADS)
- Grounding, bonding, and shielding for analog-to-digital signals in RF environments
- Composite and exotic material installations
- Data science and technical problem-solving
- Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder communication
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Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries builds autonomous defense systems including underwater vehicles, unmanned aircraft, and electronic warfare platforms for the Department of Defense. The company is hiring across mechanical engineering, mission operations, software development, technical leadership, and advanced manufacturing roles to support the design, deployment, and production of these mission-critical systems.
- Website
- anduril.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience designing and implementing high-channel-count data acquisition systems for aircraft—what were the key challenges and how did you address them?
- Tell us about a time you had to troubleshoot complex RF telemetry or signal integrity issues in a multi-band RF environment. What was your approach?