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

Anduril
California
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)Experience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Teamwork","Leadership","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Senior staff mission systems engineer on the AD&S team responsible for designing and integrating payloads and systems for autonomous air platforms. Leads modeling, trade studies, and vendor engagement to deliver mission-focused solutions, manages subcontractor/internal development, and works across teams to achieve integrated, high-performance capabilities with a TS clearance.

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Anduril
Anduril
1 year ago

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

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Job Summary

Senior staff mission systems engineer on the AD&S team responsible for designing and integrating payloads and systems for autonomous air platforms. Leads modeling, trade studies, and vendor engagement to deliver mission-focused solutions, manages subcontractor/internal development, and works across teams to achieve integrated, high-performance capabilities with a TS clearance.
Location: California
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Conduct trades for communications, sensing, and effector systems to deliver successful mission outcomes working closely with the broader AD&S team
  • •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 working closely with subject matter experts
  • •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

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceRetirementCommuter BenefitsRelocation

Key Requirements

  • •Active U.S. Top Secret security clearance required
  • •Experience in payload conceptual development, selection, integration, and validation
  • •Knowledge of communications, sensing, and effector systems (Radar, EO/IR, RF, EW)
  • •Physics-based modeling and analysis of payload system performance (e.g., MATLAB, Python, C++, COMSOL, Ansys)
  • •3+ years in payload integration and validation
Experience:3+ yearsDefenseAerospace
Skills:CommunicationTeamworkLeadershipCollaborationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:MATLABPythonC++COMSOLAnsys

Eligibility

Security Clearance:Top Secret

Company Brief

Anduril
Designs and builds advanced defense systems combining autonomous aircraft, sensors, and AI-driven software for military and national security applications, focused on modernizing battlefield capabilities and distributed sensing.
Industry: Defense Technology
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Costa Mesa, United States
Founded: 2017
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