# Chief Engineer - Tactical Effects

**Company**: Anduril
**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

The Tactical Recon & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial small drones (Group 1-3) and all equipment to test, deploy, and operate. The team is responsible for taking products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt, and Altius from concepts to operational systems.

As a Chief Engineer - Tactical Effects, you will:

- Conceptualize system architecture for upgrades and enhancements to existing vehicle systems

- Create conceptual designs of small drones, including sizing, system performance, and initial prototyping

- Layout system design plans and interfaces for new UAV products and platforms

- Work within a team of multidisciplinary engineers and specialists throughout the life of UAV design and integration process

- Manage tactical engineering efforts, interfacing between different engineering and test disciplines

- Draft and develop test plans for critical subsystems, and support vehicle level acceptance testing

- Develop interface controls for partners and customers for hardware, software, and electrical integration of complex and unique payloads with existing and new Anduril UAVs

- Achieve maximum uptime by leading vehicle data analysis efforts to identify performance trends and develop predictive failure models

- Support build and benchtop testing of new vehicle systems

- Conduct hands-on UAV testing with occasional travel

Requirements:

- 7-10 years of industry experience, including system architecture

- Familiarity with concepts of systems engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, software development, and control theory

- Demonstrated experience with conceptual design and vehicle system architecture

- Proven track record of progressing from clean sheet design to functioning hardware

- Hands-on build and prototyping of complex robotic or aircraft systems

- A passion for systems development, integration, and testing

- Knowledge of electronics troubleshooting and ability to use basic test equipment

- Extremely organized and detail-oriented

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- A sincere commitment to fostering a positive, inclusive, and collaborative culture

- Ability to travel as required for test planning and execution

- Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience developing electromechanical system models to inform the design, operation, and troubleshooting of complex subsystems

- Hands-on manufacturing and/or flight testing experience

- Experience in design engineering

- Experience in software engineering

- Understanding of aerodynamics, avionics, and flight systems

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including a comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) that ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

## Skills

### Required
- system architecture
- systems engineering
- mechanical engineering
- electrical engineering
- software development
- control theory
- conceptual design
- vehicle system architecture
- prototyping
- UAV design
- integration
- testing
- data analysis
- predictive failure models

### Nice to have
- electromechanical system models
- design engineering
- software engineering
- aerodynamics
- avionics
- flight systems
- manufacturing
- flight testing

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