# Senior Systems Engineer - Payload Module Lead

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**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

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

The Maneuver Dominance team is building Thunder - an autonomous attack rotorcraft built to fight alongside crewed combat aviation to deliver overwhelming mass effects deep beyond the front lines.

Anduril is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the design, integration, verification, and validation of a specific payload or weapon module for the Thunder platform.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead integration, verification, and validation of a specific weapon or payload module onto the Thunder platform

- Directly lead, or provide technical direction to, a team of 6 to 8 engineers across software, electrical, and mechanical and structural disciplines

- Develop program plans, estimates, and schedules for the module

- Develop system and architecture designs, perform system level analysis, and generate requirements for the module

- Troubleshoot conflicting design and development requirements

- Drive design and implementation of MIL STD 1553 and 1760 interfaces, structural mounts, and support installs (wiring, cooling, power) for the assigned module

- Own stores management system (SMS) and fire control logic specific to the module, including arm, select, and release state machines and safety interlocks

- Own safe separation analysis and testing for the module, covering trajectory clearance, jettison envelope, and captive carry and flight test support

- Run day to day agile execution for the team, including sprint planning, backlog management, and technical decision making

- Develop and maintain Interface Control Documents, Software Requirement Specifications, Performance Specifications, and review test plans and procedures

- Develop and present technical material for reviews and meetings

- Support lab, ground, and flight test events

- Coordinate with the Payloads Lead on cross module interface consistency and shared standards (MOSA/WOSA)

- Coordinate and interface directly with customers, contractors, and external payload and weapon supplier engineering teams on module specific integration issues

- Drive development of module specific test fixtures, bench setups, and SITL/HITL simulation environments

- Support ongoing operation of the fielded weapon system for the module

- Support proposals and white papers for future efforts or capabilities related to the module

- Provide hands on technical mentorship and direction to team engineers across disciplines

- Travel up to 25% to test sites and integration facilities

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution, with progressive engineering experience as follows: nine or more years with a bachelor's degree, seven or more years with a master's degree, or five or more years with a PhD; equivalent engineering experience may substitute for education

- Software programming or embedded systems experience (familiarity with C++, MATLAB, Python, PERL scripting, etc.)

- Familiarity with air to air weapons, MIL STD 1553, and logical Interface Control Documents

- Experience integrating weapons, payloads, or avionics onto aircraft

- Experience with weapon or tactical datalinks

- Experience directly leading or technically directing a small multidisciplinary engineering team (software, electrical, mechanical)

- Experience designing or validating safety critical state machines and interlock logic (arm and fire sequencing, consent based release)

- Must be customer focused with the ability to formulate and implement plans to resolve technical engineering problems

- Ability to travel to support program and test events (up to 25 percent)

- U.S. Person status (citizenship or lawful permanent residency) required for ITAR and export controlled work

- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret clearance

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- MATLAB
- Python
- PERL scripting
- MIL STD 1553
- Interface Control Documents
- air to air weapons
- weapon or tactical datalinks
- safety critical state machines and interlock logic

### Nice to have
- Direct hands on experience integrating a named weapon system
- Experience with weapon and store carriage structural design
- Experience with safe separation analysis
- Experience with stores management systems (SMS)
- Familiarity with bus analyzers and test tooling for 1553/1760
- Experience on special mission unit or SOF platform weaponization and conversion programs
- Experience in NX/Teamcenter or Solidworks
- Understanding of manufacturing methods

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