Senior Sensor Engineer

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

We are looking for a Senior Sensor Engineer to join our rapidly growing Air Defense team based in Irvine, CA.

In this role, you will be responsible for integrating new sensor modalities into our family of systems: RF and radar front ends, electro-optical/infrared assemblies, acoustic arrays, and the detection hardware behind them.

Responsibilities:

• Own sensor hardware integrations end to end, from requirements through architecture, block diagram, and simulation
• Evaluate performance of multiple sensing modalities such as RF/radar front ends, electro-optical/infrared assemblies, acoustic arrays, and other emerging sensor families
• Integrate sensor hardware with the rest of the kill chain, working alongside effector, autonomy, and Lattice teams to turn a raw detection into a closed engagement
• Represent Anduril externally as a technical authority on airborne sensing, including standards and industry bodies, sensor vendors and development partners, and technical engagement with customers

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant experience and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• Demonstrated depth in multi-modal sensor architecture and sensor selection, with a working command of the detection physics that bounds each one
• Ability to exercise high ownership over a complex system across design, integration, test, and production
• Demonstrated experience specifying and verifying sensing performance quantitatively, including detection and false alarm characterization, range performance analysis, and validation of a model against measured data
• Must be authorized to work in the United States
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with environmental qualification of military systems, such as MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-461
• Experience with networks of distributed sensors
• Experience with modeling systems of sensors using AFSIM
• Knowledge of common communication busses (I2C, SPI, UART, RS-422/485, Eth, PCIe)
• Active Secret or Top Secret clearance

Benefits:

• Highly competitive equity grants
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive health, recovery, and other support