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Anduril Industries

Systems Engineer, Air Defense

Anduril Industries
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onsite senior full-time $113,000-$149,000 USD Irvine, California

First indexed 27 Jul 2026

Description

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

The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters.

We are looking to hire a Systems Engineer to join our rapid growing team in Costa Mesa, CA. The Air Defense team has the most complex capability that Anduril has fielded to date.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the integration of emerging capabilities, bringing new products into the family of systems.
  • Lead requirements decomposition across cross-functional teams, defining success in the face of ambiguity.
  • Responsible for scoping ideal system laydown, scrutinizing system performance, and ensuring the deployed system is meeting customer requirements.
  • Own systems end to end with the ability to identify and solve problems between the seams and push through to reach an ultimate outcome.

Required Qualifications

  • 2-4 years of hardware and software systems engineering experience.
  • Degree in Engineering, Physics, Robotics, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • Demonstrated use of model based systems engineering in program lifecycle.
  • Experience with tools such as: JAMA, Cameo, Matlab, Simulink, AFSIM.
  • Experience with programming languages such as Python, C/C++, or Rust for analysis and simulation.
  • Skilled in Statistics, AI/ML, MBSE, Requirements.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in the application of engineering standards into engineering processes or requirements.
  • Demonstrated experience collaborating across cross-functional teams.
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity, evolving priorities, and challenging problems.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States.
  • Up to 25% travel to customer sites.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Familiarity with Linux OS. Comfortable obtaining data from software platforms using command-line tools.
  • Previous experience in a defense, naval, or aerospace environment.
  • Experience with any of the following: robotics, autonomous systems, radar, optics, computer vision, wireless communication, software defined radios, networking.
  • Exceptional proficiency with Python and/or MATLAB for data parsing and data visualization.

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

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