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From the employer's careers site First seen 19 Jun 2026 · Still live on 30 Oct 2026

Space Special Projects, Chief Engineer

Anduril Industries Reston, Virginia senior full-time

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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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