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