Lead Scientist, Strategic Defense

The role

This Lead Scientist will lead the technical definition, architecture, integration, and validation of Integrated Air and Missile Defense capabilities. The role involves owning critical elements of the end-to-end engagement chain, specifically fire control and dynamic sensor tasking.

What you will do

• Lead system and mission architecture for end-to-end IAMD kill chains.
• Define and mature fire-control functionality.
• Develop dynamic sensor-tasking approaches.
• Translate operational concepts into testable system requirements and behaviors.
• Decompose mission objectives into subsystem requirements.
• Perform and review technical analyses involving detection and tracking performance.
• Build and use modeling and simulation environments.
• Work with software engineers to implement battle-management and fire-control capabilities.
• Integrate sensors and effectors through open-system architectures.
• Plan and execute software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and live-fire test activities.

Required qualifications

• 10–15 years of relevant engineering experience developing, integrating, testing, or fielding complex defense, aerospace, radar, missile, weapon, battle-management, or command-and-control systems.
• A sustained record of hands-on technical work in systems engineering, software engineering, controls, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, radar engineering, modeling and simulation, integra
• Demonstrated engineering experience with fire-control systems or engagement chains.
• Demonstrated experience with sensor tasking or sensor resource management.
• Working knowledge of IAMD missions and threats.
• Experience developing and analyzing end-to-end system architectures.
• Experience translating operational needs into technical requirements, architectures, and verification plans.
• Experience with sensor fusion, tracking, battle management, mission planning, resource allocation, or real-time decision systems.
• Experience conducting quantitative engineering trades and performance analysis using Python, MATLAB/Simulink, C++, or equivalent analytical environments.
• Experience integrating and testing complex hardware/software systems in laboratory, field, range, or operational environments.
• Strong understanding of systems-engineering practices across the development lifecycle.
• Ability to communicate clearly with software, hardware, test, operations, and customer teams.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with one or more operational air or missile defense ecosystems, such as IBCS, AEGIS, C2BMC, THAAD, Patriot, LTAMDS, Sentinel, G/ATOR, NASAMS, or comparable U.S. or allied systems.
• Experience developing or integrating battle-management and command-and-control software for layered air and missile defense.
• Deep knowledge of radar search, detection, track formation, discrimination, track correlation, measurement scheduling, or sensor resource management.
• Experience with integrated fire-control networks, cooperative engagement, composite tracking, or remote sensor-to-shooter engagements.
• Knowledge of interceptor and weapon-system behavior.
• Experience designing for contested communications, intermittent connectivity, distributed operations, electronic attack, cyber constraints, or degraded sensor environments.
• Experience with tactical data links, military messaging, government reference architectures, and defense interface standards.
• Experience with model-based systems engineering and tools such as Cameo/MagicDraw, SysML, UAF, or DoDAF.
• Experience supporting flight tests, range tests, live-fire tests, operational demonstrations, or fielded mission systems.
• Master’s degree or doctorate in a relevant technical field.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

Before you apply

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
• Candidates whose backgrounds are primarily program management, business development, capture, acquisition management, or staff oversight—and who cannot demonstrate substantial recent engineering owner

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Their systems are powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.