Quality Engineer Intern, Anduril Industries

Summer 2025

Salary not provided
R
C
MatLab
Los Angeles

Office located in Costa Mesa, CA

Anduril Industries

Hardware and software for national security

Be an early applicant

Anduril Industries

Hardware and software for national security

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityEnterpriseDronesAerospace

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided
R
C
MatLab
Los Angeles

Office located in Costa Mesa, CA

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityEnterpriseDronesAerospace

Company mission

To defend against America's national security challenges to create a safer future for the nation.

Role

Who you are

  • Pursuing a degree in a technical field such as engineering, math, or a hard science
  • Must be a rising senior at the time of their internship and returning to school at the end of their internship to continue their academic studies for at least one quarter/semester
  • Internships or school related experience in a relevant field, preferably manufacturing, quality, supply chain or design of electromechanical hardware
  • Demonstrated ability to creatively problem solve issues related electromechanical hardware in a resource-constrained environment
  • Demonstrated in-kind or direct team leadership skills
  • Personal experience with inspection systems, data analysis, numeric methods, MatLab or other software packages
  • A genuine interest in data analysis, process improvement, and thirst for learning
  • U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data

Desirable

  • Previous experience leading project and working with data collection, analysis, and driving improvements
  • Hands-on experience with R/C and/or autonomous flight vehicles, flight controllers, or other related control systems
  • Software scripting experience in any language

What the job involves

  • Anduril’s Quality Engineering team is seeking an Engineer Intern to join our team
  • The Quality Engineering team is an organization that is championing the quality experiences through the entire product life cycle while bringing the quality discipline & function to critical processes and procedures within the areas for production, engineering, and supplier management
  • The right person for this role will work on critical projects that support our strategy and execution, helping Anduril grow and manage the complexities and ambiguities of a start-up
  • The role may also support a product that is in development where we need to bring critical problem solving and error proofing in order to achieve product performance and quality expectations
  • Own a portion of the production quality support process for a certain product or set of products
  • Conduct data analysis and data mining to identify trends and patterns in product quality
  • Develop and maintain KPIs & OKR metrics to track product quality and identify areas for improvement and drive improvement through a cross-functional team
  • Lead a project that transforms an element of the quality engineering team – a process, new inspection method, or complex data analytic method(s)
  • Will support Anduril’s quality management system and manage changes to documentation and training at the conclusion of the project
  • Write documentation required for successfully quality management for hardware at scale, such as work instructions, quality plans, inspection requirements, etc
  • Work with technicians and other engineers hands-on, building and measuring prototype hardware
  • Possibly travel to suppliers to do initial sourcing work, solve ongoing production issues, and implement quality procedures

Our take

Anduril makes hardware and software for defense agencies including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. Its hardware products include specialist drones with a long flight time and surveillance towers.

This hardware is tied together by proprietary software, the Lattice platform, which uses sensor fusion, machine learning, and mesh networking to integrate real-time data from Anduril hardware and third-party systems into a single, autonomous operating picture. While the hardware observes and detects, the software can make decisions as to the threat level of any anomalies, and so allow for observation and protection of an area or building with minimal manpower.

Anduril closed a Series E funding round in 2022 led by Valor Equity Partners. This funding was used for research and development of its autonomous defense products, such as the Roadrunner, a modular twin-jet powered autonomous vehicle that can take off and land vertically. Variants of the Roadrunner include defensive warhead armed interceptors which are the first drone weapons that can be retrieved after deployment. The company has also expanded to Australia where it is working in tandem with the Australian Defence Force to improve its military technology and infrastructure and is recruiting talent worldwide to support its rapidly growing portfolio of defense projects.

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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

68% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Jun 2024

$1.5bn

SERIES F

Dec 2022

$1.5bn

SERIES E

Total funding: $3.7bn

Company benefits

  • Full Family Health Coverage
  • 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave for All Caregivers
  • Family Planning & Support
  • Incentivized Time Off
  • Mental Health Resources
  • Financial Planning
  • Unlimited Provisions
  • Professional Development

Company HQ

Irvine Business Complex, Irvine, CA

Leadership

Brian Schimpf

(Co-founder & CEO)

Having studied at Cornell, they joined Palantir as an Engineer in 2007. They left after over 9 years in order to co-found Anduril in July 2017 as CEO.

Palmer Luckey

(Co-founder)

They founded Oculus VR in April 2012, where they worked until April 2017 when they co-founded Anduril.

Trae Stephens

(Co-founder)

Former Lead Data Analyst at LexisNexis for 2 years, prior to spending 5 at Palantir. They joined Founders Fund as a Partner in 2014, and co-founded Anduril in 2017.

Matt Grimm

(Co-founder & COO)

Studied Engineering at Cornell before working as a Booz Allen Hamilton Consultant and spending over 6 years at Palantir as a Forward Deployed Engineer. They worked at Mithril Capital Management and Classy.org before co-founding Anduril in 2017.

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