Mission Systems Engineer — Autonomous Air Dominance

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Systems Engineer for the Air Dominance and Strike team to deliver mission outcomes through payload selection, integration, and validation. You will work with experts across programs to model trades and drive system-level decisions for autonomous aircraft capabilities.

The role emphasizes hands-on collaboration with subcontractors and internal teams, building end-to-end solutions from concept to hardware integration, while maintaining security clearances

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Top Secret clearance required.
• Expertise in Radar / EO/IR / RF / EW domains.
• Physics-based modeling and analysis of system performance.
• 2+ years payload integration and validation.
• 8+ years in science/engineering field.

Responsibilities

• Conduct trades for communications, sensing, and effector systems to deliver successful mission outcomes working closely with the broader AD&S team.
• Architect autonomous multi-function, multi-mode payload and system solution concepts, requirements, layout, interfaces, & employment.
• Adapt or derive physics-based models of payload system performance with SMEs.
• Adapt or develop validated effects-based models for mission-level modeling & simulation tools.
• Validate system performance with test & integration engineers.
• Collaborate with AD&S to integrate and deliver high-performance systems.
• Manage subcontractors or internal teams to define subsystem requirements and drive performance on schedule.
• Communicate results in multiple forms internally and externally.

Skills

Top Secret clearance

Radar systems

EO/IR systems

RF systems

EW systems

Physics-based modeling

Payload integration and validation

Experience in science/engineering

Tools

MATLAB

Python

C++

COMSOL

Ansys

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Systems Engineer for the Air Dominance and Strike team to deliver mission outcomes through payload selection, integration, and validation. You will work with experts across programs to model trades and drive system-level decisions for autonomous aircraft capabilities.

The role emphasizes hands-on collaboration with subcontractors and internal teams, building end-to-end solutions from concept to hardware integration, while maintaining security clearances