Mission Systems Engineer – Air Dominance & Strike

Slope; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Mission Systems Engineer to deliver autonomous air system solutions from payload selection through integration and validation. You will own mission outcomes, work with multiple internal teams, and engage with subcontractors to ensure system performance meets requirements.

The role requires leading modeling, simulations, and validation activities across AdaS teams, with emphasis on integration of advanced communications, sensing, and effector systems.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Top Secret clearance.
• 2+ years at Architect level or Chief Engineer.
• 15+ years in relevant Science and/or Engineering field.
• Owning full scope of new aircraft design.

Responsibilities

• Conduct trades for communications, sensing, and effector systems to deliver mission outcomes.
• Architect autonomous payload and system concepts, requirements, layout and interfaces.
• Develop or adapt physics-based models of payload performance with SMEs.
• Develop validated models for mission-level simulation tools.
• Validate system performance with test and integration engineers.
• Collaborate across AD&S teams to deliver high-performance systems.
• Manage subcontractors or internal teams to meet subsystem requirements and schedule.
• Communicate results clearly to internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

Architect level experience

Security clearance

Systems engineering

Tools

MATLAB

Python

C++

COMSOL

Ansys

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks a Mission Systems Engineer to deliver autonomous air system solutions from payload selection through integration and validation. You will own mission outcomes, work with multiple internal teams, and engage with subcontractors to ensure system performance meets requirements.

The role requires leading modeling, simulations, and validation activities across AdaS teams, with emphasis on integration of advanced communications, sensing, and effector systems.