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Anduril

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
Costa MesaCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Sep 1, 2026
Salary
$146,000–$194,000 a year
Full-time

Human Factors Engineer

Job description

Anduril's Human Systems Integration (HSI)/Human Factors Engineering organization is seeking an experienced Human Factors Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will apply scientific principles of human cognition, behavior, and ergonomics to design and evaluate solutions that maximize usability, safety, and efficiency. You will be a key voice for the user, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure a seamless and intuitive experience for our warfighters. The Human Factors Engineering team collaborates with our broader engineering organization to ensure our products are designed to meet or exceed both warfighter needs and expectations and mission performance requirements.

Job responsibilities

  • Provide Human Factors support across various project teams and business lines
  • Be an advocate for the user and promote user-centric design as a means to optimize operator performance and user acceptance
  • Create task analyses and user workflows
  • Plan, conduct, and report usability testing throughout a program’s lifecycle
  • Identify requisite Manning, Personnel, and Training (MPT) issues to support mission use cases
  • Create personas or personnel cards to identify knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) needed for successful task completion
  • Conduct heuristic analyses of prototype hardware and software user interfaces (UI)
  • Conduct human performance testing assessing user performance across varying levels of cognitive and physical workload, Situational Awareness, and fatigue

Job requirements

  • Minimum of 5 years experience as a Human Factors Engineer, Ergonomics Engineer, Industrial Engineer or Test Engineer
  • M.S. Degree in Human Factors Psychology, Industrial Engineering, Applied Experimental Psychology, Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology, Systems Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
  • Experience with MIL-STD-1472, MIL-STD-46855, and MIL-STD-882
  • Experience in conducting task analyses or workflow analyses
  • Experience in conducting user research and/or ethnographic observation
  • Experience in implementing multiple research methodologies (e.g. A/B Testing, Think Aloud Protocols, Card Sort) for user testing
  • Experience in planning, conducting, and reporting user testing including both qualitative and quantitative data
  • Eligibility to pursue a U.S. security clearance, as required
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