Drimva

Anduril

Staff Modeling, Simulation and Analysis Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike

$191K–$292K

Costa Mesa, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026

Experience
12 or more years of related experience preferred; no required years stated.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree or higher in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, or related technical discipline.
Visa sponsorship
Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.

About the job

Develop and maintain physics-based vehicle models and simulation systems that support flight-control and mission-autonomy development, integration, and testing.

What you'll do

  • Develop simulation solutions for guidance, navigation, and control, including SITL, HITL, and PITL systems and Monte Carlo analysis.
  • Model vehicle and subsystem dynamics with multidisciplinary experts and coordinate simulation requirements with internal and external customers.
  • Own configuration of SITL, HITL, and PITL for test vehicles and analyze simulation and flight-test data.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor’s Degree or higher in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, or a related technical discipline.
  • Experience with aerospace/aeronautical systems (including rotorcraft/VTOL) and/or Subsea vehicles; flight dynamics/platform physics and control.
  • Proficiency with C/C++; advanced proficiency with scientific computing systems, including Mathworks products or scientific Python.
  • Experience with flight-test data processing/sim correlation, system and subsystem modeling, and model development for Guidance, Navigation and Control; must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.

Nice to have

  • 12 or more years of related experience.
  • Flight-test support experience; experience designing, developing, and deploying SITL/HITL infrastructure or emulated/simulation interfaces for onboard avionics.

Pay

$191,000 — $292,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

C/C++, Mathworks products, MATLAB, SIMULINK, scientific Python, numpy, scipy, SITL

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