Overview As a Reliability Engineer at Anduril, you apply formal reliability methods to ensure autonomous systems survive real-world conditions. You collaborate across mechanical, electrical, and software teams to strengthen robustness from concept through production. Your work shapes design choices, maintenance concepts, and failure prevention at scale. You will drive data-driven analyses and tangible improvements that reduce risk and boost field performance. This role offers impact across multiple domains, from concept trade studies to production readiness, in a mission-driven, innovation-rich environment.
Compensation / Benefits- competitive benefits package
- equity grants
- health and recovery benefits
- opportunities for impact across multiple domains
- career development in defense technology
- top-tier compensation
Responsibilities- Review system block diagrams, interfaces, and schematics for compliance and redundancy against requirements
- Lead FMEA and FTA efforts with cross-functional teams to implement design improvements
- Perform predictive reliability analyses (MTTF/MTBF) using MIL-based requirements and industry standards
- Develop and execute Qualification and Validation Test plans; coordinate with Test Engineering for fixtures and instrumentation
- Collaborate with Quality and Manufacturing to optimize assembly, integration, and testing processes
- Develop Maintainability models and support preventative maintenance planning
- Conduct Weibull analyses to predict failures and identify trends
- Lead failure investigations and implement CAPA to close loop on root causes
- Support Development Milestone Reviews with clear entry/exit criteria for production transition
- Create standardized reliability processes, tools, and infrastructure to accelerate design and deployment
Key requirements- Minimum 5 years in Reliability/Design/Development or Test Engineering
- Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent
- Experience with safety-critical hardware/software in defense/aerospace
- Familiarity with MIL-STD-810, MIL-HDBK-217, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-516C, MIL-STD-1629
- Experience setting up a Reliability Engineering framework across production testing, data acquisition, and analysis
- Expertise in FMEA/FMECA, predictive modeling, Weibull, and Fault Tree Analysis
- Experience generating qualification requirements and conducting tests to characterize behavior
- Proven ability to perform failure investigations and prevent recurrence
- Design Review experience (PDR, CDR, MRR) and strong presentation skills
- Eligibility to obtain/maintain a U.S. Secret clearance
- cross-functional collaboration
- ability to drive alignment without direct authority
- independence and data-driven decision making
- FMEA/FMECA
- FTA
- predictive reliability modeling
