# Head of Radar, Space

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $253,000-$336,000 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.

We are seeking an exceptional Head of Radar to lead one of our most strategic space programs.

### Responsibilities

- Technical Ownership: Drive radar architecture and product development strategies through understanding of technical tradeoffs, requirements and opportunities for innovation.

- Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, customer stakeholders, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for the radar product you are responsible for.

- Product Strategy: Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to define a product strategy that will win in the marketplace by delivering differentiated value to our customers.

- Tactical Execution: Organize and prioritize the engineering efforts required to bring the product to market, working with functional engineering teams and other product owners to optimize resource utilization.

- Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and scale a world-class radar engineering organization.

- Program Management: Oversee budget, schedule, and resource allocation for this high-stakes space program.

- Space Systems Integration: Ensure radar payload integration with spacecraft bus, ground systems, and mission operations.

### Required Qualifications

- Masters or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or related technical field.

- 12+ years of hands-on experience in radar systems engineering.

- Proven track record developing and delivering high-performance defense or space-based radar systems.

- Strong expertise in radar architecture, waveform design, radar modes, and system-level modeling.

- Deep understanding of radar fundamentals: signal processing, detection theory, clutter mitigation, and performance analysis.

- Understanding of radar antenna development, technology, and integration.

- Proficiency in MATLAB and Python for radar simulation and analysis.

- Experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams.

- Track record managing large-scale programs.

- Ability to make strategic technical decisions and manage trade-offs.

- Active U.S. Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance.

### Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with space-based RF sensing systems.

- Strong track record managing executive-level relationships with government customers.

- Experience with spacecraft operations, mission design, launch campaigns, and on-orbit commissioning/operations.

- Hands-on experience with real-time embedded systems, signal processing architectures, or space software standards.

- Track record of driving technical innovation and new capability development.

- Experience as a program manager or technical lead on large multi-party space development programs.

### Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package.

## Skills

### Required
- radar systems engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Physics
- Mathematics
- MATLAB
- Python
- radar architecture
- waveform design
- radar modes
- system-level modeling
- signal processing
- detection theory
- clutter mitigation
- performance analysis
- radar antenna development

### Nice to have
- space-based RF sensing systems
- spacecraft operations
- mission design
- launch campaigns
- on-orbit commissioning/operations
- real-time embedded systems
- signal processing architectures
- space software standards

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