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onsite senior full-time $166,000-$220,000 USD Costa Mesa, California

First indexed 10 Jun 2026

Description

As the Chief Architect, you will serve as the primary technical authority and engineering leader for Anduril's advanced EW Airborne Survivability program. You will bridge the gap between high-level program management and deep-dive technical execution, guiding a multidisciplinary engineering team to design, test, and deploy next-generation capabilities.

Technical Leadership: Serve as the chief engineer and technical authority, direct the design and implementation of system, sub-system, advanced algorithms and techniques for Electronic Warfare systems within the program scope.

Coordinate across engineering disciplines to ensure the system requirements and design are properly and thoroughly defined, captured. and executed.

Coordinate across production, maintenance, sustainment, and field operations to continually improve system usability, reliability, and performance, as well as integrate onto new platforms.

Collaborate closely with the Portfolio Chief Engineer/Architect to align product architecture, program deliverables with the broader technology roadmap, drive engineering standardization, and optimize shared technical resources.

Experience with Electronic Warfare systems utilizing Software Defined Radios

Experience with designing, developing, and testing hardware with FPGA, ARM, x86, and GPU compute architectures

Deep understanding of Electronic Support Measures (ESM) and Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) architecture-Digital Signal Processing, Model & Simulation, SW/FW-techniques, RF/EE/Antenna design.

Deep experience with Integration & Test (I&T) of RF based hardware systems in a lab or field environments

Experience with leading and coordinating cross-functional engineering teams.

Experience executing technical milestones internally and externally (Concept Review, SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.).

Excellent at balancing multiple projects at any given time and/or managing a larger team for a larger program.

Enthusiastic about working with a team and mentoring engineers

Some travel required.

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

Masters or PhD degree in Electrical, Electronics, Computer Engineering, or related fields.

Experience integrating hardware onto airborne platforms

Expertise in Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum (FHSS) and Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) signal processing

Expertise in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) signal processing

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