Senior Sensor Engineer

Anduril-1; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA is seeking a Senior Sensor Engineer to join our Air Defense team. You will lead integration of sensor modalities—from RF and radar front ends to EO/IR, acoustic arrays, and other detection hardware—through conceptual design, system integration and field deployment.

You will collaborate with the effector, autonomy, and Lattice teams to turn detections into closed engagements, represent the company to external partners, and help define verification strategies for

Qualifications

• 5+ years of sensor engineering experience or equivalent.
• Experience with multi-modal sensor architectures and detection physics.
• Ability to own a complex system across design, integration, test and production.
• Experience specifying and verifying sensing performance quantitatively.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own sensor hardware integrations end to end, from requirements through architecture, block diagram, and simulation.
• Evaluate performance of RF/radar, EO/IR, acoustic sensors, and other modalities; drive verification and validation strategies.
• Integrate sensor hardware with the kill chain, collaborating with effector, autonomy, and Lattice teams to convert detection into a closed engagement.
• Represent Anduril externally as a technical authority on airborne sensing, including standards and industry bodies.

Skills

sensor architecture

system ownership

sensor verification

US work authorization

security clearance

Education

B.S. in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

AFSIM modeling

I2C

SPI

UART

RS-422/485

Ethernet

PCIe

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.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril’s Air Defense team builds autonomous robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. This team is the nexus of premier Anduril-built products such as Roadrunner, Sentry, Anvil, Pulsar, and Wisp integrated into a software-enabled Air Defense family of systems tailored to the modern battlespace. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, we provide critical force protection capabilities to support the warfighter. Our autonomous family of networked sensors and effectors enables our users to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of UAS threats that continue to evolve at a rapid pace.

ABOUT THE JOB

Every kill chain we close starts with multiple networked sensor modalities to identify threats far before we can see them. We are looking for a Senior Sensor Engineer to join our rapidly growing Air Defense team based in Irvine, CA. In this role, you will be responsible for integrating new sensor modalities into our family of systems: RF and radar front ends, electro-optical/infrared assemblies, acoustic arrays, and the detection hardware behind them. You will lead the development and integration of first party and third-party sensors to take integrated sensors through conceptual design, system integration and test, and field deployment.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own sensor hardware integrations end to end, from requirements through architecture, block diagram, and simulation
• Evaluate performance of multiple sensing modalities such as RF/radar front ends, electro-optical/infrared assemblies, acoustic arrays, and other emerging sensor families. Drive the verification and validation strategy for perception and make the determination of which sensor fits which mission.
• Integrate sensor hardware with the rest of the kill chain, working alongside effector, autonomy, and Lattice teams to turn a raw detection into a closed engagement
• Represent Anduril externally as a technical authority on airborne sensing, including standards and industry bodies, sensor vendors and development partners, and technical engagement with customers

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of relevant experience and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• Demonstrated depth in multi-modal sensor architecture and sensor selection, with a working command of the detection physics that bounds each one.
• Ability to exercise high ownership over a complex system across design, integration, test, and production.
• Demonstrated experience specifying and verifying sensing performance quantitatively, including detection and false alarm characterization, range performance analysis, and validation of a model against measured data
• Must be authorized to work in the United States
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with environmental qualification of military systems, such as MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-461
• Experience with networks of distributed sensors
• Experience with modeling systems of sensors using AFSIM
• Knowledge of common communication busses (I2C, SPI, UART, RS-422/485, Eth, PCIe)
• Active Secret or Top Secret clearance

US Salary Range

$166,000 - $220,000 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:

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