Principal Test & Evaluation Engineer - Networked Battlefield Systems

Anduril Industries, Costa Mesa, California +1

The role

Anduril is seeking a Principal Test Engineer to serve as the senior-most individual-contributor technical authority for test and evaluation across Connected Warfare's portfolio, including Eagle Eye, NGC2, Menace family of systems, and more. Where Staff and Lead Test Engineers own the test program for a specific system or campaign, this role is accountable for technical coherence across Connected Warfare's applications — supporting teams in shaping sound verification strategy, resolving the hardest cross-system integration and test problems, and raising the bar for how the division's test engineers plan, execute, and document their work.

Posted pay

$220K–$292K

a year

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This base pay is above the median for principal infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs in other US places.

Median: $219K a year
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Location

Costa Mesa, California +1

Work type

Not given

Level

Principal

Experience

10+ years

Posted

Sep 4, 2026

Last check

8 h ago

Job type

Infra, platform & SRE

The role

What you will do

Serve as the senior technical authority on test strategy across most of Connected Warfare's applications, providing technical oversight and support to the teams running the division's most complex, highest-risk, or multi-system test campaigns.
Review and help program teams strengthen verification strategies — requirements-based, scenario-based, and operationally relevant — ensuring they scale across CW's software-enabled hardware and pure-software systems and properly incorporate customer-required standards and metrics.
Act as connective tissue across Connected Warfare's individual test programs: identify where one program's test infrastructure, tooling, instrumentation, or lessons learned should be reused elsewhere in the division, and work with program teams to drive that reuse.
Provide technical mentorship and escalation support to Staff and Lead Test Engineers running individual program test campaigns — reviewing test plans, execution approach, and reporting across developmental test, system integration (HIL/SIL), and operational assessment events (from lab integration through field validation), unblocking hard technical problems, and raising the technical rigor of test execution across the division. Step in hands-on only on the most technically demanding events where a program team needs direct help.
Directly support T&E Test Process execution (e.g. Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), technical milestone reviews, and customer acceptance events), representing CW's test posture with credibility to government and program stakeholders.
Work with teams to confirm traceability from requirements through verification and validation results across CW programs, and help define and monitor test coverage, requirements verification, and defect closure metrics at a division level, not just program level.
Support root-cause investigation on the hardest test findings and system anomalies, partnering directly with engineering to resolve issues that cross system or program boundaries.
Represent Connected Warfare T&E in engineering design reviews (PDR/CDR) and technical exchanges with government customers and partner organizations as needed.
Contribute to the technical hiring and onboarding of test engineers across Connected Warfare.

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Principal Test & Evaluation Engineer - Networked Battlefield Systems

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