Lab & Integration Lead
Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States
About this role
**Anduril Industries — Lab & Integration Lead** **About the Team** Platform Engineering & Integration (PEI) is the Chief Engineering integration function that brings strong subsystems together into a deployable platform. PEI owns the seams: platform architecture coherence, cross-domain interfaces, integration risk, verification strategy, configuration maturity, and readiness evidence across multiple autonomous airpower programs. **About the Role** You will be the technical lead for the integration lab fleet behind Anduril’s flagship autonomous air vehicle—covering software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) rigs for vehicle management, flight controls, and mission systems, plus an iron bird with hydraulics, loaded actuation, and power. This is a player-coach role with design authority: you’ll work hands-on at the bench, set the design bar for every rig, and lead a small team of lab and integration engineers. **What You’ll Do** - **Own the lab architecture and rig design**: baseline rig block diagrams, lab network, HITL host/simulation, data recording, and rig interfaces; provide design oversight for chassis, rack, power, harness, and hydraulic interfaces. - **Lead bring-up at the bench**: safe-to-mate, power-on and BIT, LRU checkout, and reference-scenario runs; debug across hardware, harness, network, and software boundaries. - **Define what “operational” means**: maintain an operational-readiness checklist; run readiness reviews; pre-define fallback configurations and triggers. - **Keep every rig under configuration control**: baseline configurations (LRU part/serials, software/firmware versions, harness revisions, sim/model versions) and record as-tested configurations for formal runs. - **Own lab capacity and the integrated lab schedule**: model rig-hours demand vs. available capacity; run the integrated rig-by-week schedule and weekly Lab & Integration board. - **Allocate hardware to rigs**: own the LRU allocation plan across engineering, qualification, and flight. - **Say what each environment proves**: set rig fidelity, simulation/model validation approach, and data capture standards; ensure lab evidence is traceable to requirements and limits are stated. - **Run integration on the rigs**: set integration entry/exit criteria per release; run daily integration triage; drive discrepancy reports to closure; require regression after changes. - **Make the lab safe and accredited**: own hazard analysis (hydraulics/high power/rotating machinery), lab network and cyber accreditation path, and classified lab accreditation. - **Plan for the lots, not just first flight**: assess rig deltas per hardware lot; own sustainment, spares, calibration, obsolescence, and retirement. - **Lead and grow the team**: hire/mentor; set standards and work instructions; build a culture of engineering ownership. - **Make it portable**: turn what works into the PEI lab and integration playbook for future programs. **Required Qualifications** - B.S. in electrical, computer, aerospace, or mechanical engineering (or similar) - 7+ years designing/building/operating/integrating SIL, HIL, iron-bird, or avionics integration labs for aircraft, missiles, or space systems; **including 2+ years as technical lead** for a lab/rig team - Hands-on avionics/electrical integration (harness drawings, pin-to-pins, MIL-DTL-38999-class connectors, safe-to-mate, power distribution, bench instrumentation) - Working knowledge of avionics data buses/networks (Ethern
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