# Staff Systems Engineer - Payload Lead

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $191,000-$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.

The Maneuver Dominance team is building Thunder - an autonomous attack rotorcraft built to fight alongside crewed combat aviation to deliver overwhelming mass effects deep beyond the front lines.

As a Staff Systems Engineer, you will support payloads integration for the Thunder team.

**Responsibilities**

- Drive the perception system architecture and requirements baseline

- Own the sensor suite baseline and its configuration across platforms

- Set and defend the sensing performance model

- Drive the verification and validation strategy for perception

- Provide technical authority at design and gate reviews

- Lead sensor trades that resolve real forks

- Drive modularity and reuse so that perception ports across platforms

- Set the sensing engineering practice that others inherit

- Own perception in the air

- Represent Anduril externally as a technical authority on airborne sensing

**Required Qualifications**

- B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Optics, Physics, Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace, or a similar field

- 5+ years of engineering experience on electro-optical, LiDAR, RADAR, or comparable sensing systems

- Demonstrated depth in multi-modal sensor architecture and sensor selection

- Demonstrated experience owning system architecture and interface definition for a sensing system

- Ability to exercise extremely high ownership over a complex system

- Demonstrated experience specifying and verifying sensing performance quantitatively

- Working command of electro-optical, LiDAR, and/or RADAR system engineering fundamentals

- Outstanding written and verbal communication

- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a US Top Secret security clearance

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience with learned perception in a safety relevant system

- Experience with embedded compute and SWaP-C budgeting for airborne perception

- Experience with environmental qualification of airborne sensors

- Experience transitioning a capability out of development and into a delivery program or product line

- Experience as a technical lead or principal investigator

- Experience with requirements management tooling such as Jama

- Participation in a standards or industry body relevant to airborne sensing or airspace integration

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Optics
- Physics
- Computer Science
- Robotics
- Aerospace
- multi-modal sensor architecture
- sensor selection
- system architecture
- interface definition
- sensing performance
- electro-optical
- LiDAR
- RADAR

### Nice to have
- learned perception
- embedded compute
- SWaP-C budgeting
- environmental qualification
- airborne sensors
- technical lead
- principal investigator
- requirements management
- Jama

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