# Senior Modeling and Simulation Engineer, Space

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: El Segundo, California
**Experience**: senior
**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.

As a Senior Modeling and Simulation Engineer, you will design mission trajectories, build models to help craft mission solutions, and develop simulations to solve key mission needs.

## Responsibilities

- Lead small technical team throughout model and analysis development and execution cycles

- Develop model-driven analysis (and often the models themselves)

- Perform operational and mission effectiveness analysis of existing and emerging systems and capabilities in representative environments

- Perform trade studies via simulation and recommend alternative architectures

- Provide rigorous analytical products which will be used to guide DoD decision making

## Required Qualifications

- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance

- Space Mission MS&A experience - for example, working knowledge of constellation design, space trajectory design, and physics-level modeling across a wide variety of space missions

- Spacecraft & Payload MS&A experience, ability to perform physics-based, trade-space analyses for spacecraft propulsion, power, thermal management, and payloads such as RADAR, SATCOM, and/or EOIR

- Outstanding communication skills to include visual presentation of complex data

- Proficiency with physics-math scripting (e.g., Matlab (preferred), Python)

- Strong engineering background, preferably in Astrodynamics, Aerospace Engineering, Dynamics and Controls Engineering, or other related engineering field

- Experience briefing technical data to all levels of leadership within the organization and US Government

## Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in STEM and 8+ years in a relevant Science/Engineering field

- Experience with version control tools (e.g. GitHub, Gitlab, etc.)

- Experience conducting software-based trade studies

- Proficiency with STK and advanced modules (e.g. Astrogator)

- Experience working in SAP security environments

- Experience with genetic algorithms, machine learning, AI, and reinforcement learning algorithms

## Skills

### Required
- Space Mission MS&A
- Spacecraft & Payload MS&A
- physics-math scripting
- Astrodynamics
- Aerospace Engineering
- Dynamics and Controls Engineering
- communication skills
- U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance

### Nice to have
- version control tools
- software-based trade studies
- STK and advanced modules
- SAP security environments
- genetic algorithms
- machine learning
- AI
- reinforcement learning algorithms

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