Anduril
Senior Sensor Engineer
$166K–$220K
Irvine, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Education
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be authorized to work in the United States; eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
About the job
Integrates and evaluates networked sensor modalities for Anduril’s Air Defense systems, from design through testing and field deployment.
What you'll do
- Own sensor hardware integration from requirements through architecture, simulation, testing, and production.
- Evaluate sensor modalities and define quantitative verification and validation strategies for their performance.
- Integrate sensors with effector, autonomy, and Lattice teams; represent Anduril in technical engagements with vendors, standards bodies, and customers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of relevant experience and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
- Depth in multimodal sensor architecture and selection, including detection physics.
- Ability to own complex systems across design, integration, test, and production.
- Experience specifying and quantitatively verifying sensing performance, including detection, false alarms, range analysis, and model validation against measured data.
Nice to have
- Experience with environmental qualification of military systems, distributed sensor networks, or modeling sensor systems using AFSIM.
- Knowledge of common communication buses (I2C, SPI, UART, RS-422/485, Eth, PCIe); active Secret or Top Secret clearance.
Pay
$166,000 — $220,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AFSIM, I2C, SPI, UART, RS-422/485, Eth, PCIe, MIL-STD-810
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