Senior Airworthiness Engineer - Advanced Effects

your Jared; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking an Airworthiness Engineer to develop and certify airworthiness plans for developmental and production aircraft stores, supporting flight releases and system integration across services.

You will ensure continuous adherence to airworthiness objectives, tailor processes to the program, and drive collaboration with engineering teams, DoW/FAA authorities, and customer partners in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering or aviation related engineering degree.
• 8+ years airworthiness engineering experience.
• Experience establishing and maintaining relationships with DoW and FAA airworthiness authorities.
• Experience with DoW Airworthiness Policy Directives, Instructions, and Airworthiness Bulletins.
• Experience working FAA Airworthiness processes throughout the life cycle of a developmental aircraft system.
• Experience developing and managing Airworthiness plans and criteria tracking.
• Must have experience with store integration on DoW platforms.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret-Level security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and author Airworthiness certification and conformance plans for developmental and production aircraft stores.
• Perform airworthiness planning, tracking and verification in a digital environment.
• Guide technical reviews across total system design and interfaces.
• Translate customer requirements into certification criteria and derived requirements.
• Tailor Airworthiness processes to meet program needs throughout the lifecycle.
• Support Airworthiness assessments and lead Boards, technical interchanges, and risk assessments.
• Maintain Airworthiness activities in a digital infrastructure tied to requirements, schedules, and flight test matrices.

Skills

Airworthiness

DoW/FAA relations

Airworthiness processes

Store integration

Communication

Security clearance

Team collaboration

Documentation

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor in Aerospace/Systems Engineering

Masters preferred

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.

The Test and Evaluation team at Anduril works across the entire spectrum of products and business lines, as well as all flight operations and test range management. Our team conducts full system level development testing, new production acceptance testing, sub-component qualification testing and much more. In short, if it involves test, we support it. If you are interested in working in an extremely innovative and fast paced environment, where your work directly makes an impact and difference in the products that are fielded, this a fantastic opportunity.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• You will work as an Airworthiness Engineer to develop and author Airworthiness certification and conformance plans for developmental and production aircraft stores, supporting Flight Releases, tailored airworthiness, and customer platform integration across all services.
• You and your team will perform technical airworthiness planning, tracking and verification support within a digital environment. This includes the development and negotiation of airworthiness bases of certification, means of compliance, and other certification activities. You will be responsible for cultivating total-system Airworthiness relationships between engineers and other technical authorities, including our customer partners.
• Airworthiness engineering duties include guiding technical reviews with other airworthiness engineers and engineering disciplines across the total system design, development and test processes.
• You are expected to perform functional and process analyses, requirements allocation and definition studies with program engineers and customer representatives. You will facilitate all interactions which translate customer requirements into criteria and derived requirements.
• You will ensure the logical and systematic realization of customer airworthiness certification objectives, to include the tailoring of traditional Airworthiness processes, and continuously evaluate and update Airworthiness plans with new realized solutions to meet program needs throughout the product lifecycle.
• Faced with numerous Airworthiness assessments you will proactively support and guide all design development towards Airworthiness compliance and support all processes leading to a successful issuance of a Military Flight Release (MFR) or other customer specific airworthiness approval. Subsequent to this you will actively solicit all engineering and systems data required to support iterative and on-going Airworthiness Boards, technical interchange meetings, and risk assessments.
• You will develop, author and maintain all Airworthiness activities in a digital environment which is interconnected with system requirements, program schedules, flight test point matrix, and also risk assessments. Using this digital infrastructure you will demonstrate the ability to perform statistical analysis or program performance and leverage your digital tools to provide input to the flight test program execution schedule.
• Faced with technical and execution challenges, you will be expected to develop creative solutions to unique problems. You will be biased for action — you are empowered to or engage your team to solve and fix any problem you encounter.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• A bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering or aviation related engineering degree. May substitute equivalent engineering experience in lieu of education.
• 8+ years airworthiness engineering experience.
• Experience establishing and maintaining relationships with DoW and FAA airworthiness authorities.
• Experience with DoW Airworthiness Policy Directives, Instructions, and Airworthiness Bulletins ((MIL-HDBK-516, Seek Eagle Process, and WSESRB, NNMSB, etc.)
• Experience working FAA Airworthiness processes throughout the life cycle of a developmental aircraft system to achieve successful program completion.
• Experience developing and managing Airworthiness plans, tracking of Airworthiness criterions, and similar activities.
• Must have experience with store integration on DoW platforms.
• Ability to develop and execute Airworthiness Certification process improvement initiatives.
• Must have strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with emphasis on technical subjects.
• Strong computer and documentation experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret-Level security clearance.
• In this role, you will be subject to pre-employment and randomized substance screening, as required by the Company.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Masters in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering or aviation related technical discipline. May substitute equivalent engineering experience in lieu of education.
• 15+ years flight airworthiness engineering experience.
• Systems engineering and Airworthiness experience with new small UAS and missile system airworthiness authorizations.
• Previously held a position as Airworthiness Engineering Lead or Airworthiness Engineer
• Airworthiness experience on a team that executed new store integration activities
• Experience working with the Department of War (DoW) as a contractor.

US Salary Range

$146,000 — $194,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.