Principal Mission Systems Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance

The role

You will deliver mission outcomes through the selection, sourcing, and validation of mission relevant payloads and systems. You will conduct trades for communications, sensing, and effector systems and architect autonomous payload solution concepts.

What you will do

• Conduct trades for communications, sensing, and effector systems
• Architect autonomous multi-function, multi-mode payload and system solution concepts, requirements, layout, interfaces, & employment
• Adapt or derive physics-based models of payload system performance
• Adapt or develop validated effects-based models for use in mission-level modeling & simulation tools
• Validate system performance in close cooperation with test & integration engineers
• Work closely with AD&S teams to integrate & deliver high-performance systems
• Manage subcontractors and/or internal development teams to define subsystem requirements and drive technical performance on schedule
• Communicate results in multiple forms internally and externally

Required qualifications

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
• 2+ years of experience at the Architect level, or Chief Engineer
• Owning full scope of new aircraft design
• RF and IR expertise
• Broad depth of experience
• Understands more than just the first order of physics behind the systems they are building
• 15+ years in relevant Science and/or Engineering related field

Nice to have

• Knowledge of current and next-generation advanced communications, sensing, and effector systems and platforms
• Platform-level system trade and integration experience
• Advanced proficiency in analytical toolchains or languages (e.g., MATLAB, Python, C++, COMSOL, Ansys)
• Advanced communications experience (e.g., secure LPx line-of-sight, beyond line-of-sight, tactical data links)
• Advanced sensing domain experience (e.g., EO/IR, ESM, EA, EW, LIDAR)

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Must currently possess and be able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
• Consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

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 family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.