Principal Engineer, cUAS Lead, Omen

The role

The Principal Engineer will own the Omen airborne counter-UAS effector payload from prototype to production. This role involves designing effector and firing systems, leading a multidisciplinary team, and managing payload interfaces.

What you will do

• Own the counter-UAS effector payload end to end, from first prototype to qualified production hardware.
• Design the effector and firing system including mounting, recoil, feed, and interlocks.
• Own the steering hardware including actuators, gearing, drives, and isolation.
• Hold the pointing error budget.
• Select and evaluate sensors that range and locate the target.
• Build and lead the team by hiring across mechanical, electrical, firmware, and test.
• Set the payload roadmap.
• Own payload interface control with the vehicle and mission system teams.
• Plan and run ground and flight test campaigns.
• Design for manufacturability, tolerance and reliability analysis, supplier selection, and acceptance test.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years designing electromechanical hardware, including at least one product carried from concept to production
• Strong engineering background, ideally in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Aerospace, or Electrical Engineering
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams, including hiring
• Deep mechanical design capability: structures under high transient loads, precision mechanisms, tolerance stack-ups, and joint design
• Experience sizing actuators for precision pointing, and a working grasp of the control bandwidth tradeoffs
• Experience with vibration and shock isolation, including isolator selection and the dynamic analysis behind it
• Experience selecting and characterizing ranging sensors (Radar, lidar, EO/IR, or laser rangefinders)
• Hands-on test experience, from rig design and instrumentation through data analysis
• Experience taking hardware to production: DFM, supplier engagement, first article inspection, acceptance test
• Proficiency in CAD (NX, SolidWorks, or equivalent)
• Ability to travel about 25% with potential surges for test and demonstration events
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to have

• Direct experience with weapon, effector, launcher, or ordnance-adjacent systems, including safe and arm design
• Counter-UAS experience, whether engagement chains, fire control, or targeting small unmanned aircraft
• VTOL, tail-sitter, or rotorcraft experience, and familiarity with the payload environment they create
• Experience with stabilized pointing, gimbals, boresighting, or targeting chains
• Familiarity with fire control, including lead and ballistic solutions and sensor-to-effector latency
• Environmental qualification testing (MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461)
• Airworthiness experience with external stores
• MATLAB/Simulink, multibody dynamics, or FEA for transient structural loads
• Familiarity with ITAR/EAR as it applies to effector development
• C++ or Python for test automation and data analysis

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. 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. The company's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.