# Senior Modeling and Simulation Engineer, Space

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, 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 defence technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

Anduril's Space team is dedicated to expanding AI-powered capabilities into space, enhancing Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control for U.S. military and allied partners.

### Job Summary

As a Senior Modeling and Simulation Engineer, you will own the understanding and design of the mission solution, designing mission trajectories, building models, and developing simulations to solve key mission needs.

### Responsibilities

- Develop model-driven analysis and models themselves

- Develop a deep understanding of the transformational value of Anduril's platform, autonomy, simulation, and perception products

- Use advanced internal M&S capabilities to give analyses an asymmetric advantage over competitors

- Convey the value through the life of AI-powered distributed systems over traditional industrial offerings

- Provide rigorous analytical products to guide hardware engineering and convince stakeholders of the value advantage

### Requirements

- Currently possess and able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

- Space Mission MS&A experience, including working knowledge of constellation design, space trajectory design, and physics-level modeling

- Spacecraft & Payload MS&A experience, with ability to perform physics-based trade-space analyses for spacecraft propulsion, power, thermal management, and payloads

- Outstanding communication skills, including visual presentation of complex data

- Strong background in orbital mechanics and space environment

- Proficiency with physics-math scripting (e.g., MATLAB, SIMULINK, Python+numpy, scipy)

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

### Preferred Qualifications

- 8+ years in a relevant Science/Engineering field

- Rendezvous Proximity Operations (RPO) Trajectory Design & Space Payloads experience

- Exceptional proficiency with physics-math scripting

- Proficiency with STK and Astrogator

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

### Salary and Benefits

The salary range for this role is $191,000-$253,000 USD per year. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers. Anduril offers top-tier benefits, including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, income protection, generous time off, family planning and parenting support, mental health resources, professional development, commuter benefits, and relocation assistance.

## Skills

### Required
- Space Mission MS&A
- Spacecraft & Payload MS&A
- Orbital Mechanics
- Physics-Math Scripting
- Astrodynamics

### Nice to have
- Rendezvous Proximity Operations (RPO) Trajectory Design
- Genetic Algorithms
- Machine Learning
- AI
- Reinforcement Learning
- STK
- Astrogator

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