Anduril
Senior System Engineer, ModSim, Joint Simulation Environment (JSE)
$180K–$220K
Costa Mesa, California, United States +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Location
- Costa Mesa, California, United States
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Costa Mesa, California, United States
Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Experience
- 8+ years of Systems Engineering experience across the life cycle.
- Education
- B.S. in aerospace, mechanical, computer science, or similar engineering or technical field.
About the job
Red-team program designs through systems engineering, building and analyzing models and simulations to test claims and communicate results to technical and leadership stakeholders.
What you'll do
- Build models and simulations to prove or challenge claims and red-team designs and analyses.
- Support Program Management, Mission Software Engineers, and Operations Analysts as a systems engineer.
- Present complex results clearly to engineers, leadership, and stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Active U.S. Top Secret security clearance that can be maintained.
- B.S. in aerospace, mechanical, computer science, or a similar engineering or technical field.
- Experience with MODSIM environments such as AFSIM or JSE, including their interfaces and behaviors.
- Experience in systems engineering, requirements analysis and system design in a government context, and requirements ownership.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and analyzing real engineering systems; demonstrated ability to find problems through failure analysis, adversarial review, or independent verification.
- Physics-math scripting proficiency, such as MATLAB, Simulink, or Python + numpy/scipy.
Pay
$180,000 — $220,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AFSIM, JSE, SysML, DoDAF, UAFP, Cameo MagicDraw, Rhapsody, SparxEA
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