Staff Systems Engineer - Autonomous Payloads & Sensing

Anduril; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to support payloads integration for the Thunder team. This role will drive the perception system architecture and baseline configurations across aircraft variants, ensuring traceability from requirements to test evidence.

You will own the sensing performance model, lead verification and validation strategies, and act as the technical authority in design and gate reviews, guiding sensor trades and modularity for reusable perception ports

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Optics, Physics, Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace, or a similar field, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of engineering experience on electro-optical, LiDAR, RADAR, or comparable sensing systems, including time as the technical owner of a sensing system through to fielded or flight demonstrated performance
• Demonstrated depth in multi-modal sensor architecture and sensor selection, with a working command of the detection physics that bounds each one
• Demonstrated experience owning system architecture and interface definition for a sensing system, including the interfaces to compute, to autonomy consumers, and to the vehicle
• Ability to exercise extremely high ownership over a complex system across design, integration, test, and flight test
• 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
• Working command of electro-optical, LiDAR, and/or RADAR system engineering fundamentals: radiometry and link budgets, detector and optics se

Skills

Sensing systems

Sensor architecture

System architecture

Ownership mindset

Sensing performance

EO/LiDAR/RADAR fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in EE/Optics/Physics/CS/Robotics/Aerospace

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to support payloads integration for the Thunder team. This role will drive the perception system architecture and baseline configurations across aircraft variants, ensuring traceability from requirements to test evidence.

You will own the sensing performance model, lead verification and validation strategies, and act as the technical authority in design and gate reviews, guiding sensor trades and modularity for reusable perception ports