Senior Systems Engineer

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

We are seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer to join our team as we transition a Ladar product from the Engineering Development Unit (EDU) phase through Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD), and ultimately into high-rate production.

Responsibilities

• Drive the EDU-to-EMD Transition: Oversee the deployment and test of our EDU builds, ensuring they are fully prepared to support field testing to demonstrate system capability and performance.
• Lead Qualification & Testing: Design and execute a comprehensive Design Verification Testing (DVT) campaign to environmentally test and qualify the system.
• Prepare for Major Milestones: Author technical documentation, define verification matrices, and lead systems-level preparation for upcoming Critical Design Reviews (CDR) and Manufacturing Readiness Reviews (MRR).
• Scale for Production: Collaborate with manufacturing and hardware teams to implement Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles. Scale our production capabilities from a few units per year to a target volume of ~10s of systems per month.
• Optimize Test Infrastructure: Architect, design, and ruggedize manufacturing test equipment for efficiency, throughput, and reliability on the production floor.
• Automate & Integrate: Collaborate with software and firmware teams to implement robust test automation, while pushing the user interface (UI) and background software towards product-level maturity.
• Adapt or derive physics-based models of sensor system performance and derive requirements based on those models, and validate models against laboratory and real world data
• Support both laboratory-based and field-based experiments and demonstrations

Required Qualifications

• EO/Ladar Domain Expertise: 5+ years of hardware-centric systems engineering experience working with Electro-Optical (EO) systems, Ladar/Lidar, or high-precision pointing systems.
• Development-to-Production Experience: Direct experience transitioning complex, multidisciplinary systems from low Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) to high TRL / production-ready status.
• Testing & Environmental Qualification: Strong familiarity with DVT campaigns, environmental testing standards, and field testing operations.
• Production Scaling Mindset: Practical knowledge of Design for Manufacturing (DFM), test equipment ruggedization, and test process optimization/automation.
• Milestone Execution: Experience leading or heavily contributing to systems engineering reviews such as CDR, MRR, or PRR.
• Collaboration & Communication: Outstanding ability to communicate across multidisciplinary teams (optical, mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, and manufacturing).
• Advanced proficiency in an analytical toolchains/languages (e.g., MATLAB, Python)
• Strong laboratory skills (e.g. design of experiments)
• Willingness to travel to test sites.
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with software/hardware integration, specifically defining software interfaces, UI productization, and background software requirements.
• Experience with software/firmware automated test frameworks.
• Knowledge of current and next-generation advanced sensing systems and platforms