Director, Seeker Integration Systems

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Air Dominance & Strike : Air Dominance & Strike Engineering : Mission Systems Engineering

Director, Seeker Integration Systems at Anduril, a defense technology company. This role focuses on delivering mission outcomes by selecting, sourcing, and validating mission-relevant payloads and systems for autonomous air systems. Responsibilities include payload conceptual development, selection, integration, and validation, requiring ownership of technical development efforts and cross-team collaboration. The role involves conducting system trades, architecting payload solutions, developing physics-based and effects-based models, and validating system performance. It also includes managing subcontractors and internal development teams, and communicating results.

What you'd actually do

  1. Conduct trades for communications, sensing, and effector systems to deliver successful mission outcomes working closely with the broader AD&S team
  2. Architect autonomous multi-function, multi-mode payload and system solution concepts, requirements, layout, interfaces, & employment
  3. Adapt or derive physics-based models of payload system performance working closely with subject matter experts
  4. Adapt or develop validated effects-based models for use in mission-level modeling & simulation tools
  5. Validate system performance in close cooperation with test & integration engineers

Skills

Required

  • U.S. Top Secret security clearance
  • Radar, EO/IR, RF, and EW systems expertise
  • Physics-based modeling and analysis
  • Payload integration and validation
  • Science and/or Engineering background

Nice to have

  • Advanced communications experience
  • Advanced sensing domain experience
  • Missile design & integration
  • MATLAB
  • Python
  • C++
  • COMSOL
  • Ansys

What the JD emphasized

  • Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
  • Communications, sensors, and effector domain expertise in one or more of Radar, EO/IR, RF, and EW systems
  • Physics-based modeling and analysis of system performance in tool(s) of your choice
  • 5+ years in payload integration and validation
  • 10+ years in relevant Science and/or Engineering related field