Staff Mission Systems Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance

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

This role focuses on mission systems engineering for autonomous air systems in the defense sector. The engineer will be responsible for selecting, integrating, and validating mission-relevant payloads and systems, developing physics-based and effects-based models, and managing subcontractors or internal development teams. The role requires expertise in communications, sensing, and effector systems, and involves system trade-offs and integration for customer delivery.

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

  • 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
  • 3+ years in payload integration and validation
  • 5+ years in relevant Science and/or Engineering related field

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of current and next-generation advanced communications, sensing, and effector systems and platforms
  • Platform-level system trade and integration experience
  • Advanced proficiency in analytical toolchains or languages (e.g., MATLAB, Python, C++, COMSOL, Ansys)
  • Advanced communications experience (e.g., secure LPx line-of-sight, beyond line-of-sight, tactical data links)
  • Advanced sensing domain experience (e.g., EO/IR, ESM, EA, EW, LIDAR)
  • Experience with missile design & integration

What the JD emphasized

  • active U.S. Top Secret security clearance