Anduril
Staff Systems Engineer, Strategic Defense
$191K–$254K
Washington, District of Columbia, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years of systems engineering experience across the life cycle; alternatively, over 10 years of air and missile defense experience is stated as an education alternative.
- Education
- B.S. in aerospace, mechanical, applied physics, computer science, or a similar engineering or technical field, or over 10 years of air and missile defense experience.
About the job
Manages architecture and requirements for next-generation air and missile defense systems, ensuring traceability and configuration control through testing and fire-control certification.
What you'll do
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to develop requirements and architecture plans and artifacts.
- Lead traceable, configuration-controlled requirements and architecture products across related fire-control programs.
- Contribute to digital and systems engineering strategy and maintain systems engineering artifacts.
What they ask for
- Active U.S. Secret security clearance that can be maintained.
- B.S. in a relevant engineering or technical field, or over 10 years of air and missile defense experience.
- 12+ years of systems engineering experience across the life cycle.
- Experience with systems testing and evaluation, fire-control systems and safety, and requirements, integration, and test activities on complex systems.
Nice to have
- Experience modeling weapon systems and threat scenarios, and with reliability prediction or failure mode analysis.
- Experience with Cameo Simulation Toolkit, AFSIM, or Mathworks products such as MATLAB and SIMULINK.
Pay
$191,000 — $254,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
SysML, DoDAF, UAFP, Cameo MagicDraw, Rhapsody, SparxEA, Teamwork Cloud, AFSIM
AI focus
The role involves maintaining systems engineering artifacts related to Anduril platforms, autonomy, simulation, and perception products; the posting does not specify direct AI development work.
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