Junior Systems Engineer — UAS Networking & C2

Linuxcareers; Costa Mesa, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health benefits

Competitive salary

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking an entry-level engineer to help develop resilient command-and-control networking for unmanned aerial systems operating in remote, contested environments requiring high reliability and autonomy.

You will enable C2 capabilities, derive requirements, design networked components, and deploy hardware in lab and flight-test setups, supporting HIL validation and high-latency conditions. This role offers growth in a defense tech environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM (Electrical Engineering, Mechanical, Aerospace, Physics, Computer Science, or other relevant engineering discipline)
• Passion for networking, system design, and engineering fundamentals
• Familiarity with basic networking concepts and protocols
• Demonstrated ownership and impact from internships or side projects

Responsibilities

• Enable UAS C2 capabilities through resilient network design and architecture
• Derive system, subsystem, and component-level requirements for networking infrastructure
• Design, develop, and maintain system components in complex networked environments
• Deploy, configure, and maintain lab and flight-test networking hardware including tactical radios, switches, routers, and edge compute nodes
• Support hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) integration and bench testing to validate network reliability and throughput for command-and-control and sensor data
• Build and maintain physical and virtual test setups to simulate contested, high-latency, or bandwidth-constrained network environments

Skills

Networking concepts

Engineering fundamentals

Ownership mindset

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

Python

Linux-based systems

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking an entry-level engineer to help develop resilient command-and-control networking for unmanned aerial systems operating in remote, contested environments requiring high reliability and autonomy.

You will enable C2 capabilities, derive requirements, design networked components, and deploy hardware in lab and flight-test setups, supporting HIL validation and high-latency conditions. This role offers growth in a defense tech environment.