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

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000-$290,000 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 our team. The AD&S team is responsible for developing end-to-end 'mission-ized' autonomous air systems capable of delivering exceptional warfighter outcomes to our customers.

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 our 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

- 2+ years of experience at the Architect level, or Chief Engineer

- Owning full scope of new aircraft design

- RF and IR expertise

- Broad depth of experience

- Understands more than just the first order of physics behind the systems they are building

- 15+ 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)

**Benefits** Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package.

## Skills

### Required
- Mission Systems Engineering
- Autonomous Systems
- AI
- Computer Vision
- Sensor Fusion
- Networking Technology
- RF
- IR

### Nice to have
- Advanced Communications
- Sensing Systems
- Platform-level System Trade
- Integration Experience
- Analytical Toolchains
- MATLAB
- Python
- C++
- COMSOL
- Ansys
- LIDAR

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