# Space Special Projects, Chief Engineer

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Reston, Virginia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Highly competitive, actual salary offer may vary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Chief Engineer to join its rapidly growing Space team.

The successful candidate will serve as a technical lead on emerging developments for an all-encompassing spacecraft mission focused on dynamic space operations and highly maneuverable satellites.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing technical expertise across multiple spacecraft subsystems and ground systems

- Leveraging strategic partnerships and teammates to build new products

- Contributing technical inputs to proposals and providing oversight to a multi-disciplinary team of engineers

- Performing mission and system level trade studies and analysis to balance risk, cost, and performance

The ideal candidate will have:

- An active U.S. Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance

- Prior technical experience supporting DoD or IC customers

- Experience in architecting, developing, and delivering defense/IC satellite and space hardware and software systems

- Experience with high dV spacecraft, dynamic space operations, space-based sensing, and mission operations for surveillance and reconnaissance

- Strong technical communication skills and the ability to deliver critical technical briefings

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees.

## Skills

### Required
- spacecraft subsystems
- ground systems
- strategic partnerships
- proposal writing
- mission analysis
- system level trade studies
- high dV spacecraft
- dynamic space operations
- space-based sensing
- surveillance and reconnaissance
- technical communication

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