# Deputy Chief Engineer, Tactical Effects

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,000-$220,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Tactical Recon & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial small drones and equipment to test, deploy, and operate. They create products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt, and Altius from concept to operational systems.

**Responsibilities**

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

- Design small drones, including sizing, system performance, and initial prototyping

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

- Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineers and specialists throughout the UAV design and integration process

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

- Develop test plans for critical subsystems and support vehicle level acceptance testing

- Create interface controls for partners and customers for hardware, software, and electrical integration of complex payloads

- Lead 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

**Required Qualifications**

- 7-10 years of industry experience in system architecture

- Familiarity with 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

- Passion for systems development, integration, and testing

- Knowledge of electronics troubleshooting and basic test equipment

- Extremely organized and detail-oriented

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- 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

- 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 a comprehensive benefits package, including top-tier benefits for full-time employees.

## Skills

### Required
- system architecture
- mechanical engineering
- electrical engineering
- software development
- control theory
- systems engineering
- UAV design
- integration
- testing

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

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