Director, Program Test & Evaluation Engineering - Advanced Effects

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead a diverse group of individuals, including test engineering and maintenance personnel across multiple UAS and weapon systems
• Develop and execute company leadership directives, including creating unique T&E strategies for integration, planning, execution, and operations, with a focus on solving hard problems and changing the industry
• Manage and guide the technical efforts of flight test engineers and control room personnel, providing direct input to test event planning, preparation, execution, and reporting
• Oversee all test and integration efforts at the system and subsystem levels, ensuring projects are coordinated and test progress status is tracked/communicated
• Interface with program leadership, and managing resource constraints
• Directly contribute to periodic and milestone engineering reviews, facilitating technical discussions between Anduril and customer representatives, and support the Growth and Proposal team during contract shaping,…
• Direct engineering activities, including team building, execution, process, and technical oversight strategies, to achieve program objectives and creative test and evaluation solutions
• When required, plan, execute, and report on lab, ground, and flight tests, overseeing test data collection and performing initial data analysis

Job requirements

• A bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution, or equivalent engineering experience
• 12+ years of experience as a test conductor/director for developmental aircraft and payload integration, or 10+ years of experience as a lead test conductor/test director for developmental weapon or missile systems on…
• Possess a complete understanding of engineering concepts, principles, codes, and theory, with broad application and expansive knowledge of related technical specialties
• Demonstrate the ability to understand new concepts quickly, apply them accurately, organize, schedule, and coordinate work phases, and determine appropriate approaches to solve complex problems at the task or project…
• Experience with surrogate booster motor integration
• Strong understanding of vehicle, payload, and ground safety equipment requirements.
• Familiarity with adjacent missile technology programs and funding opportunities.
• Experience with system engineering or DoD program processes (EVM, MIL-STD-881, etc.).