Senior Systems Engineer

Anduril; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in London is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead capability development on Thunder. You will ensure the mission system delivers end-user value in challenging environments and operate with velocity to deliver new designs within months.

You will own and develop the system architecture, perform decomposition, and guide the technical performance measures across design reviews, shaping the product from concept to execution in a lean, high-ownership culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in systems engineering for complex defense systems.
• Ability to apply Agile engineering practices to fast-moving development.
• Strong focus on architecture, decomposition, and system descriptions.

Responsibilities

• Execute a right-sized, Agile Systems Engineering approach for Thunder Mission System development.
• Support TPM evolution throughout the design process.
• Contribute to SDRs, PDRs, CDRs, TRRs and Safety Reviews as the Systems Engineering lead.

Skills

Systems engineering

Agile methodology

Technical documentation

Architecture diagrams

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Maneuver Dominance team is building Thunder - an autonomous attack rotorcraft built to fight alongside crewed combat aviation to deliver overwhelming mass effects deep beyond the front lines. The team in London builds the Mission System and the Autonomy that makes aircraft like Thunder work.

A mission system is only a system if the parts agree. Thunder's payloads and subsystems are being developed in parallel, across teams and across companies, onto an air vehicle that is moving underneath them. The decomposition, the interfaces, and the evidence that it all works together are what hold that together. That is the problem you would own.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join us in London and lead capability development on Thunder. You will bring pragmatic systems engineering thinking to complement and enhance the overall mission system capability, ensuring end-user needs are met in challenging operational environments. You will be part of a lean, high-ownership culture where you directly shape the product and operate at a velocity to fly new designs within months, not years.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Execute a right-sized, Agile Systems Engineering approach as per the Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP) for development of the Thunder Mission System and Payloads at the speed of relevance
• Support design teams in the evolution and progress of Technical Performance Measures (TPMs) throughout the design process
• Contribute to System Design Reviews (SDR) and engineering governance structures such as Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), Critical Design Reviews (CDR), Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), Safety Review Boards (SRB) representing the Systems Engineering discipline
• Own and maintain Functional Decomposition, System Breakdown Structure (SBS), Product Breakdown Structure (PBS), and Architecture diagrams
• Develop key Systems Engineering design artefacts including System Description Documents (