Odin Dynamics
Lead Test Engineer
Los Angeles
No sponsorshipDetected 138 days ago
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About the role
- You'll be hands-on designing test infrastructure and running campaigns today, and hiring and leading the test team as we grow.
Responsibilities
- Define and build the test and integration function - processes, infrastructure, tooling, and eventually the team.
- Design and lead environmental qualification testing - pressure, thermal, vibration, and shock - ensuring the vehicle performs across its full operating envelope.
- Develop and maintain software and systems verification approaches, working with the software team to ensure autonomy, navigation, and control systems are tested rigorously before they hit the water.
- Build test automation and data infrastructure - instrumentation rigs, automated test sequences, data pipelines, and reporting tools that make testing repeatable and efficient.
- Author and maintain test plans, procedures, reports, and anomaly documentation to a standard that supports both internal engineering and customer deliverables.
- Hire, mentor, and lead test engineers and technicians as the team scales.
- You'll be solving some of the hardest engineering problems of our time - building autonomous systems that operate in the most demanding environments on the planet.
- Your work will directly shape the future of undersea warfare for the U.S. Navy and our allied partners.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in test engineering, systems integration, or verification and validation for complex hardware-software systems.
- Demonstrated experience planning and executing integration and test campaigns for vehicles, robots, or other complex electromechanical systems.
- Hands-on experience with environmental testing - pressure, thermal cycling, vibration, or similar qualification regimes.
- Strong instrumentation and data acquisition skills - you know how to measure what matters and how to turn test data into engineering decisions.
- Ability to work fluidly across mechanical, electrical, and software disciplines - test engineers touch everything.
- U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain a security clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience testing underwater vehicles, marine systems, or subsea equipment.
- Background in defense or aerospace test and evaluation programs.
- Familiarity with test automation frameworks and scripting for hardware-in-the-loop or automated regression testing.
- Experience with formal verification and validation methodologies for safety-critical or mission-critical systems.
- Exposure to customer acceptance testing or government test and evaluation processes.
- Active security clearance (Secret or above).
- This is real autonomy, real hardware, and real national impact.
- If you want your work to matter, this is the place.
Company info
- Founded in 2025, Odin Dynamics is a defense technology company building autonomous underwater vehicles that will define the next era of undersea warfare.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Please note that any offer for employment may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export control laws and regulations without sponsorship for an export license.
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