Senior Systems Engineer

The role

You will transition a Ladar product from the Engineering Development Unit phase through Engineering and Manufacturing Development and into high-rate production. You will lead testing campaigns, scale build capacity, and bridge the gap between design and manufacturing.

What you will do

• Oversee the deployment and test of EDU builds to support field testing
• Design and execute a Design Verification Testing campaign
• Author technical documentation and define verification matrices
• Lead systems-level preparation for CDR and MRR
• Collaborate with manufacturing and hardware teams to implement DFM principles
• Scale production capabilities to ~10s of systems per month
• Architect, design, and ruggedize manufacturing test equipment
• Collaborate with software and firmware teams to implement test automation
• Adapt or derive physics-based models of sensor system performance
• Support laboratory-based and field-based experiments and demonstrations

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of hardware-centric systems engineering experience working with Electro-Optical (EO) systems, Ladar/Lidar, or high-precision pointing systems
• Direct experience transitioning complex, multidisciplinary systems from low TRL to high TRL / production-ready status
• Strong familiarity with DVT campaigns, environmental testing standards, and field testing operations
• Practical knowledge of Design for Manufacturing (DFM), test equipment ruggedization, and test process optimization/automation
• Experience leading or heavily contributing to systems engineering reviews such as CDR, MRR, or PRR
• Ability to communicate across multidisciplinary teams
• Advanced proficiency in an analytical toolchains/languages (e.g., MATLAB, Python)
• Strong laboratory skills (e.g. design of experiments)
• Willingness to travel to test sites
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance

Nice to have

• Experience with software/hardware integration, specifically defining software interfaces, UI productization, and background software requirements
• Experience with software/firmware automated test frameworks
• Knowledge of current and next-generation advanced sensing systems and platforms

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. 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. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.