Software Release and Quality Engineer, Anduril Industries

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Proficiency in C++, Rust, and/or Go
• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting
• Desire to lead and mentor other developers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and desire to interact with customers and company leadership
• Must be eligible to obtain and hold a US DoD Security Clearance

Desirable

• We are looking to bring on a Senior Software Release and Continuous Delivery Engineer to define and manage major releases aligned with program milestones to deliver production quality software releases for families-of-systems (aircraft, ground systems, and support elements) across multiple product variants
• You will work closely with a team of co-developers that will develop processes & tools that allows Anduril to develop and release safety and mission critical systems quickly and reliably
• A strong SW Release and Quality engineer will have a proven track record of managing the deployment of production software, interacting with CI/CD pipelines, has strong coding skills, and maintains a background in applying automated test coverage infrastructure both on-device and in the cloud
• Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers for autonomous systems
• Implement and manage automated testing and deployment processes in an established continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environment to ensure a release pipeline infrastructure that is gated on automated tests with high code coverage
• Work with other software developers to improve their unit and regression test coverage
• Define and develop software in the loop (SITL) and hardware in the loop (HITL) tests to validate system level performance and assure system quality
• Review and approve pull requests (PRs) across the full family of systems
• Manage and coordinate the deployment of development releases to test and evaluation teams for flight test validation in coordination with configuration management teams
• Manage and coordinate the deployment of production releases to flight test, manufacturing, and operations teams in customer environments in coordination with configuration management teams
• Plan, organize, delegate, and maintain official release notes
• Collaborate with program management on communicating program increment software features and specifications to customer stakeholders before and during development sprints
• Plan, organize, delegate, and maintain official software engineering change requests to deliver to customer decision makers before deploying an official release
• Plan, organize, delegate and maintain official software update procedures
• Develop processes and tools to inspect and maintain system configuration sets
• Monitor and enhance system reliability, performance, and security through automation and monitoring of metrics collected from SITL, HITL, flight test, and deployed operations
• Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps with product-centric and platform-wide developers
• Travel up to 30% time to flight test sites to help integrate and test major feature updates
• Lead major release and quality assurance efforts, mentoring other developers, collaborating with other leads, and providing guidance on decision making in a high pace mission critical environment
• Support the team in maintaining rapid development while in parallel improving our processes, standards, testing infrastructure, and data-driven empirical evidence of end-to-end system performance
• Build out dashboards to demonstrate system performance, system maintenance and system improvements over time
• Utilize git and CI automations to execute nightly and automated builds and system checks, reacting and delegating fixes as issues are uncovered