Anduril
Senior Open Architecture Systems Engineer, Mission Systems
$166K–$220K
Costa Mesa, California, United States +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 24, 2026
- Location
- Costa Mesa, California, United States
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Costa Mesa, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years of Systems Engineering experience across the life cycle.
- Education
- B.S. in aerospace, mechanical, computer science, or a similar engineering or technical field.
About the job
Develop and maintain systems-engineering artifacts and digital-engineering strategy for autonomous airpower and mission systems, coordinating with internal teams and government customers.
What you'll do
- Create and present stakeholder-driven systems-engineering artifacts, including contractual deliverables.
- Support digital and systems engineering strategy and implementation, and maintain artifacts for Anduril platforms and autonomy products.
- Interface with internal programs and government customers on systems engineering and mission systems integration.
What they ask for
- B.S. in aerospace, mechanical, computer science, or a similar engineering or technical field.
- Understanding of defense interoperability and integration challenges, and Mission System use cases, behaviors, and methods.
- Experience in government-context requirements analysis and system design, and systems engineering, requirements management, integration, and test on complex systems.
- Experience with SysML, DoDAF, UAFP, or similar; model-based systems engineering artifacts; and Cameo MagicDraw or similar. Must currently hold and maintain an active U.S. Secret clearance and be eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience with the AMS GRA standard or an adopting Mission System; or defining or implementing Mission System behaviors through UCI.
- Cameo or Python automation for Systems Engineering use cases; INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional (SEP) Certification.
Pay
$166,000 — $220,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
SysML, DoDAF, UAFP, Cameo MagicDraw, Rhapsody, SparxEA, UCI, Python
AI focus
The role supports autonomous airpower and mission autonomy systems; it develops and maintains systems-engineering artifacts for Anduril platforms, autonomy, simulation, and perception products.
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