Space Imaging Systems Engineer – EO/IR & Space Sensors

Anduril Industries; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 126,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Systems Engineer for the Space Imaging team to define active EO/IR system architectures and validate performance through modeling, lab tests, and field demonstrations.

Responsibility includes prototype sensor development in lab environments, collaboration across hardware, software, and mission teams, and ensuring model fidelity against real-world data. Willingness to travel and obtain a U.S. security clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Experience in model development and validation for remote sensing or similar domains.
• Ability to decompose complex systems into functional parts with clear interfaces and requirements.
• Experience in system design and development from concept through delivery to customer.
• Strong laboratory skills and familiarity with opto-electrical test and measurement equipment.
• Willingness to travel to test sites as needed.
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Define system architectures via detailed trade studies and analyses.
• Adapt or derive physics-based models of sensor system performance and derive requirements from those models.
• Take ownership over the development of prototype sensor systems in a lab environment.
• Support both laboratory-based and field-based experiments and demonstrations.
• Engage technically with hardware, software, and mission teams to define, integrate, and deliver high performance systems to customers.
• Validate models against laboratory and real-world data.
• Coordinate and communicate with external and internal stakeholders with varying degrees of technical background.

Skills

Systems engineering

Model development

System architecture

Lab skills

Security clearance

Travel readiness

Tools

MATLAB

Python

MODTRAN

SPIRITS

AFSIM

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks a Systems Engineer for the Space Imaging team to define active EO/IR system architectures and validate performance through modeling, lab tests, and field demonstrations.

Responsibility includes prototype sensor development in lab environments, collaboration across hardware, software, and mission teams, and ensuring model fidelity against real-world data. Willingness to travel and obtain a U.S. security clearance is required.