Principal Mission Systems Engineer — Air Dominance & Strike

Anduril Industries

Costa Mesa (CA)

On-site

USD 220,000 - 290,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking a Mission Systems Engineer for the Air Dominance and Strike team. You will own mission outcomes by selecting, integrating, and validating payloads and systems, collaborating with internal teams and external vendors to deliver end-to-end autonomous capabilities.

You'll model system performance, develop validated tools, and guide subcontractor work to meet schedule.

Qualifications

  • Active U.S. Top Secret security clearance required or able to obtain.
  • Minimum 2+ years at Architect level or Chief Engineer.
  • Ownership of full scope of new aircraft design.
  • RF and IR expertise.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct trades for communications, sensing, and effector systems to deliver mission outcomes.
  • Architect autonomous payload and system solution concepts, requirements, layout, interfaces, and employment.
  • Adapt physics-based models of payload performance with SMEs.
  • Develop validated models for mission-level modeling and simulation tools.
  • Validate system performance with test and integration engineers.
  • Coordinate with subcontractors and internal teams to meet schedule.

Skills

Security clearance
Architect-level leadership

Tools

MATLAB
Python
C++
COMSOL
Ansys

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking a Mission Systems Engineer for the Air Dominance and Strike team. You will own mission outcomes by selecting, integrating, and validating payloads and systems, collaborating with internal teams and external vendors to deliver end-to-end autonomous capabilities.

You'll model system performance, develop validated tools, and guide subcontractor work to meet schedule.

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