# Staff Mission Systems Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance

**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.

Anduril's Air Dominance and Strike (AD&S) team is seeking a Mission Systems Engineer to join their team. The AD&S team develops end-to-end 'mission-ized' autonomous air systems capable of delivering exceptional warfighter outcomes.

As a Mission Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering mission outcomes within Anduril programs through the judicious selection, sourcing, and validation of mission-relevant payloads and systems.

**Responsibilities**

- Conduct trades for communications, sensing, and effector systems to deliver successful mission outcomes working closely with the broader AD&S team.

- Architect autonomous multi-function, multi-mode payload and system solution concepts, requirements, layout, interfaces, & employment.

- Adapt or derive physics-based models of payload system performance working closely with subject matter experts.

- Adapt or develop validated effects-based models for use in mission-level modeling & simulation tools.

- Validate system performance in close cooperation with test & integration engineers.

- Work closely with AD&S teams to successfully integrate & deliver high-performance systems to customers.

- Manage subcontractors and/or internal development teams to define subsystem requirements and drive technical performance on schedule.

- Communicate results in multiple forms internally and externally.

**Required Qualifications**

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

- Communications, sensors, and effector domain expertise in one or more of Radar, EO/IR, RF, and EW systems.

- Physics-based modeling and analysis of system performance in tool(s) of your choice.

- 3+ years in payload integration and validation.

- 5+ years in relevant Science and/or Engineering related field.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Knowledge of current and next-generation advanced communications, sensing, and effector systems and platforms.

- Platform-level system trade and integration experience.

- Advanced proficiency in analytical toolchains or languages (e.g., MATLAB, Python, C++, COMSOL, Ansys).

- Advanced communications experience (e.g., secure LPx line-of-sight, beyond line-of-sight, tactical data links).

- Advanced sensing domain experience (e.g., EO/IR, ESM, EA, EW, LIDAR).

- Experience with missile design & integration.

**Benefits**

- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.

- Income protection: life and disability insurance.

- Generous time off: highly competitive PTO plans.

- Family planning & parenting support.

- Mental health resources.

- Professional development: annual reimbursement.

- Commuter benefits.

- Relocation assistance.

- Retirement savings plan.

## Skills

### Required
- communications
- sensors
- effector systems
- physics-based modeling
- payload integration
- validation

### Nice to have
- advanced communications
- sensing systems
- platform-level system trade
- analytical toolchains
- missile design

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