# Mission Systems Engineer, Antenna Lead

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $200,000-$253,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

Anduril's Air Dominance and Strike (AD&S) team is seeking a Mission Systems Engineer with an RF Aperture focus to join our team.

As a Mission Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering mission outcomes within Anduril programs through the judicious selection, sourcing, and validation of mission relevant payloads and systems.

Responsibilities:

- Own RF payloads, existing or new, from concept through production as the architect.

- Select (either design or buy) antennas for payloads to integrate onto vehicles.

- Estimate installed antenna performance through simulation, then validate with chamber and/or free space radiating measurements.

- Perform co-site analysis of other installed RF systems through analysis and measurement.

- 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.

- Work closely with AD&S teams to successfully integrate & deliver high-performance systems to our customers.

- 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.

Requirements:

- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

- Experience with RF chamber measurements and network analyzers.

- 2+ years experience with HFSS.

- 2+ years in antenna design or integration.

- 5+ years in relevant Science and/or Engineering related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

- 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).

- Experience with missile design & integration.

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) to support you in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

## Skills

### Required
- RF chamber measurements
- HFSS
- antenna design
- integration
- U.S. Top Secret security clearance

### Nice to have
- MATLAB
- Python
- C++
- COMSOL
- Ansys
- advanced communications
- sensing domain experience
- missile design & integration

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