# Principal Engineer, cUAS Lead, Omen

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000-$292,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the development of Omen's airborne counter-UAS effector payload. The successful candidate will own the payload end-to-end, from prototype to production, and build a team around it.

Responsibilities:

- Own the counter-UAS effector payload end-to-end, from first prototype to qualified production hardware.

- Design the effector and firing system, including mounting structure, recoil and impulse management, feed and cycling, safe and arm interlocks.

- Own the steering hardware, sizing actuators, gearing, and drives, and design isolation to protect the airframe and effector.

- Hold the pointing error budget and track every part of it.

- Select and evaluate sensors for ranging and locating targets.

- Build and lead a team across mechanical, electrical, firmware, and test disciplines.

- Set the payload roadmap, balancing near-term demonstrations with production architecture.

- Own payload interface control with vehicle and mission system teams.

- Plan and run ground and flight test campaigns, including live range events.

- Lead root-cause work when results do not match predictions.

- Take the payload to production, designing for manufacturability, tolerance, and reliability analysis.

- Work on safety and compliance for safe and arm architecture, range safety, and export control.

Required Qualifications:

- 10+ years of experience designing electromechanical hardware.

- Strong engineering background in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Aerospace, or Electrical Engineering.

- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams, including hiring.

- Deep mechanical design capability.

- Experience sizing actuators for precision pointing.

- Experience with vibration and shock isolation.

- Experience selecting and characterizing ranging sensors.

- Hands-on test experience.

- Experience taking hardware to production.

- Proficiency in CAD.

- Ability to travel about 25%.

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Direct experience with weapon, effector, launcher, or ordnance-adjacent systems.

- Counter-UAS experience.

- VTOL, tail-sitter, or rotorcraft experience.

- Experience with stabilized pointing, gimbals, boresighting, or targeting chains.

- Familiarity with fire control.

- Environmental qualification testing experience.

- Airworthiness experience with external stores.

- MATLAB/Simulink, multibody dynamics, or FEA experience.

- Familiarity with ITAR/EAR.

- C++ or Python programming experience.

The salary range for this role is $220,000-$292,000 USD per year. Anduril offers top-tier benefits, including comprehensive health coverage, retirement savings, and equity grants.

## Skills

### Required
- electromechanical hardware design
- mechanical engineering
- team leadership
- precision pointing
- vibration and shock isolation
- sensor characterization
- test experience
- production design
- CAD proficiency
- security clearance

### Nice to have
- weapon systems
- counter-UAS
- VTOL
- stabilized pointing
- fire control
- environmental qualification testing
- airworthiness
- MATLAB/Simulink
- multibody dynamics
- FEA
- ITAR/EAR
- C++
- Python

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