Senior Discovery Engineer

The role

You will own new concepts from initial idea through analysis, prototype, and test to reach validated answers. You will build models, simulations, and test setups while pressure-testing work to find failure modes. This role involves collaborating with hardware and software teams to translate results into design decisions.

What you will do

• Own new concepts from first idea through analysis, prototype, and test
• Learn new domains to build models and check them against known results
• Build or adapt models, simulations, and test setups
• Pressure-test work by hunting failure modes and surfacing hidden assumptions
• Use AI tools for research, code, and analysis
• Work with Hardware, Software, and GNC teams to translate results into decisions
• Communicate results to engineers, leadership, and customers

Required qualifications

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
• Demonstrated experience working in more than one technical area
• Experience designing, building, testing, or fielding something real
• Proficiency in at least one physics-math scripting environment (Python with numpy/scipy, MATLAB/Simulink, Julia, or similar)
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication

Nice to have

• 8+ years in a relevant science/engineering field
• Math, physics, or engineering degree, or similar
• Proficiency with AI tools (coding assistants, agents, model-driven research)
• Experience in space systems, missiles and missile defense, air vehicles, GNC, sensors and sensor fusion, radar, EW, acoustics, or autonomy

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 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. The company uses Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system, to power its family of systems.