Anduril
Systems Engineering Lead, Air Vehicle Systems
$191K–$253K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Aug 5, 2025
- Experience
- 10+ years engineering experience across the UAS life cycle, with a specific focus on aircraft systems; 3+ years leading a systems engineering team working on air vehicle systems.
- Education
- B.S. in aerospace, mechanical, computer science, or similar engineering or technical field.
About the job
Leads systems engineering for development of a Group 5 autonomous aircraft, translating customer needs into requirements and supporting architecture, airworthiness certification, and risk management.
What you'll do
- Shape customer needs into aircraft and subsystem requirements with multidisciplinary teams; develop systems engineering artifacts and maintain a digital thread.
- Incorporate safety and software engineering input into system architecture and support airworthiness certification.
- Communicate and manage program risks with the Chief Engineer and Program Management.
What they ask for
- B.S. in aerospace, mechanical, computer science, or a similar engineering or technical field.
- 10+ years of engineering experience across the life cycle for a UAS, focused on aircraft systems; 3+ years leading a systems engineering team working on air vehicle systems.
- Experience with subsystem requirements and interfaces, mature aircraft development programs, operational testing, and airworthiness certification.
- Active U.S. Secret security clearance; experience with the listed aviation standards and handbooks, SysML, DoDAF, UAFP, or similar, and model-based systems engineering artifacts.
Nice to have
- Experience with Cameo MagicDraw or similar systems engineering software.
- Experience with Digital Engineering workflows and Integrated Modeling Environments such as Teamwork Cloud.
Pay
$191,000 — $253,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
MIL-HDBK-516C, MIL-STD-882E, ARP-4761, ARP-4754A, DO-178C, DO-254, MIL-STD-881, SysML
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