Anduril
Staff Mission Systems Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance
$191K–$253K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 24, 2025
- Experience
- 3+ years in payload integration and validation; 5+ years in a relevant Science and/or Engineering related field.
About the job
Delivers mission outcomes for autonomous air systems by selecting, modeling, integrating, and validating mission-relevant payloads and subsystems.
What you'll do
- Conduct system trades and architect payload and system concepts, requirements, layouts, interfaces, and employment.
- Develop or adapt physics-based and effects-based performance models, and validate system performance with test and integration teams.
- Manage subcontractor or internal technical development, integrate capabilities across teams, and communicate results.
What they ask for
- Active U.S. Top Secret security clearance that the candidate can maintain.
- Expertise in at least one of Radar, EO/IR, RF, or EW systems.
- Physics-based modeling and analysis of system performance using tools of choice.
- 3+ years in payload integration and validation; 5+ years in a relevant Science and/or Engineering related field.
Nice to have
- Platform-level system trade and integration experience.
- Advanced proficiency in analytical toolchains or languages such as MATLAB, Python, C++, COMSOL, or Ansys.
Pay
$191,000 — $253,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
MATLAB, Python, C++, COMSOL, Ansys
AI focus
The role develops and integrates autonomous air-system capabilities; the posting describes Anduril’s broader platform as AI-powered but does not specify AI work for this role.
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