Manufacturing Test Automation Engineer in Sydney

Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Manufacturing Test Automation Engineer to join their Sydney-based team. In this role, you will design and build the technical backbone of manufacturing test operations for Dive-XL, a large-displacement autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) program, creating test frameworks, GUIs, and automation systems that enable rapid testing of defense hardware while meeting critical customer and development timelines.

What You'll Do

• Design and build production utility suites including manufacturing-line and vehicle-level test consoles with version-controlled test execution through user-friendly GUIs.
• Architect and develop shared test framework substrate including test runners, instrumentation drivers, data logging, traceability hooks, and error-code libraries.
• Standardize and maintain declarative toolchain infrastructure using NixOS, moving from mixed Linux/Windows/macOS development environments to a single config-managed target.
• Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines for test code deployment, version control discipline, and code review practices.
• Integrate test systems with Anduril factory systems including MES, Oracle ERP, and Teamcenter PLM to ensure traceability and automated data capture.
• Provide floor support for test failures, debugging hardware-tester-software integration issues and resolving production bottlenecks.

What You Need

• Degree in Software, Computer, Electrical, Mechatronic, or related engineering discipline, or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Strong Python programming skills with proven experience building, maintaining, and debugging test frameworks—not just scripts.
• Expert-level Linux and command-line proficiency as your primary working environment, comfortable with system configuration, process management, and network debugging.
• Hands-on experience writing software that drives test instruments and hardware through real interfaces such as USB, Ethernet, RS232/RS485, CAN, I2C, SPI, or GPIB.
• Practical electronics troubleshooting ability with oscilloscope, multimeter, and logic analyzer to isolate problems across product, tester, and cabling.
• GUI development experience building user-facing test consoles or operator interfaces with frameworks such as PyQt, Tkinter, web stacks, or LabVIEW.
• Software engineering discipline including version control, configuration management, test code testing, and reproducibility practices.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government NV2 Security Clearance as an Australian citizen.

Nice to Have

• Experience in production test environments rather than R&D test benches, including knowledge of technician workflows under time pressure and shift handovers.
• Familiarity with declarative configuration systems such as NixOS, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Experience with test frameworks including LabVIEW, TestStand, or pytest-based test harnesses.
• Knowledge of test metrics including first-pass yield, false-fail rate, tester utilization, GR&R, and test coverage.
• Integration experience with MES systems (Solumina, Ae), ERP systems (Oracle, SAP, NetSuite), or PLM systems (Teamcenter).
• Subsea robotics, AUV, or UUV domain experience.
• Background in AS9100/ISO 9001 quality environments and configuration-management discipline.
• Embedded firmware experience including flashing, debugging, datasheet reading, and bootloader interaction.
• Experience integrating with hazardous systems such as high-voltage (up to 400V), hydraulics, or compressed gas environments.

Highly competitive equity grants included in majority of full-time offers; top-tier benefits package available at little to no cost to employees. Actual salary offer varies based on work experience, education, critical skills, and business considerations.