Senior Airworthiness Engineer for DoD Aircraft

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Airworthiness Engineer to join the Group 4 & 5 Maneuver Dominance team at the Costa Mesa HQ. You will develop airworthiness plans for developmental and production aircraft, ensuring conformance with DoD and civil authorities.

You will engage regulators, lead certification activities, and integrate airworthiness with system design reviews, risk assessments, and flight test planning in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

Qualifications

• A bachelor degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering or aviation related engineering degree.
• 8+ years airworthiness engineering experience.
• Experience with safety-critical hardware and software systems in the Defense or Aerospace industries, specifically crewed aircraft, rotorcraft, UAS (Group 3 or larger) or weapon systems.
• Extensive knowledge of AC 23-1309-1E, MIL-STD-882E, MIL-STD 516C airworthiness, AC-17-01, and other relevant safety standards.
• Experience establishing and maintaining relationships with civil and military Airworthiness authorities (DoD, FAA and/or EASA).
• Proven experience working civil and military Airworthiness processes, including MIL-HDBK-516 series documents, throughout the life cycle of a developmental aircraft to achieve successful program completion.
• Familiarity with technical software packages such as Relyence, Teamcenter, JIRA, JAMA, Cameo, and/or Ansys.
• Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and communication skills.
• A sincere commitment to a positive, inclusive, and collaborative culture.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance in United States, United Kingdom, or Australia.

Responsibilities

• Develop and author Airworthiness certification and conformance plans for Group 4 & 5 developmental and production aircraft, to fly both CONUS and OCONUS.
• Bring a pragmatic and right-sized approach to Airworthiness (and Systems Safety) to enable capability realization at the speed of relevance.
• Engage with customers, end-users and local regulatory authorities to identify and negotiate appropriate Airworthiness frameworks and recognized standards to develop the overall Airworthiness strategy as a foundation for design efforts.
• Develop Airworthiness plans and documentation in support of regional regulatory processes and submissions.
• Support System Design Reviews (SDR) and engineering governance structures such as Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), Critical Design Reviews (CDR), Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), Safety Review Boards (SRB) representing and Airworthiness.
• 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 throughout the product lifecycle.
• 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, providing 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 engage your team to solve and fix any problem you encounter.

Skills

Strong communication

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor degree in Aerospace Engineering or Systems Engineering

Tools

Relyence

Teamcenter

JIRA

JAMA

Cameo

Ansys

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Airworthiness Engineer to join the Group 4 & 5 Maneuver Dominance team at the Costa Mesa HQ. You will develop airworthiness plans for developmental and production aircraft, ensuring conformance with DoD and civil authorities.

You will engage regulators, lead certification activities, and integrate airworthiness with system design reviews, risk assessments, and flight test planning in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.