Integration and Test Engineer, Fuel Systems (Omen)
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p>Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.</p></div><p><strong>Job Description</strong><br>Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.<br><br><strong>About The Job</strong><br>Anduril is seeking an Integration & Test Engineer, Fuel Systems to join the Maneuver Dominance team at our Costa Mesa HQ to own integration and test of the fuel system for Omen, an advanced Group 3 VTOL tail-sitting aircraft. This individual will own fuel system integration testing across increasingly mature environments, from component bench tests through full vehicle ground test, and will support the vehicle-level mass properties test program by defining and planning the fuel-system-specific inputs needed to account for the effects of fuel state and vehicle orientation on weight, center of gravity, and moments of inertia. This is a hands-on, build-and-run role suited to someone who wants to own a test campaign end to end: requirements, fixturing, execution, and reporting.<br><br><strong>WHAT YOU'LL DO</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own all fuel system integration and test activities from component bench tests through full vehicle ground test, including tanks, pumps, valves, fluid lines, sensors, and dispense sequencing, developing right-sized test plans and efficiently capturing and reporting learnings as inputs to design</li> <li>Define and plan the fuel-system-specific requirements, measurement approach, and instrumentation needed to characterize vehicle weight, center of gravity, and moments of inertia, supporting the vehicle mass properties test program across fuel states and vehicle orientations</li> <li>Develop and execute a fuel system orientation test program capturing fuel flow behavior, pump performance, and tank dispense sequencing across multiple vehicle orientations</li> <li>Define fixturing, tooling, and test setup requirements for fuel system bench and vehicle-level orientation testing, partnering with fabrication and ground support teams on buildup of long-lead hardware</li> <li>Coordinate with structures/loads and systems engineering teams to define the load cases and vehicle configurations required to support orientation and mass properties testing</li> <li>Feed mass properties test results into vehicle models and hand off clean data to support downstream ground vibration testing (GVT) and flight dynamics work</li> <li>Focus on the safety of integration environments, ensuring that potent