# Principal Design Engineer

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Chantilly, Virginia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000-$292,000 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.

We are seeking a Senior Design Engineer to join the Space Special Programs team at our Chantilly, VA location.

## Job Summary

As a Principal Design Engineer, you will work on core technologies, subsystems, spacecraft, and complete space systems supporting the Space Special Programs team and core mission.

## Key Responsibilities

- Execute rapid evaluation of engineering concepts in a wide range of fields

- Create solutions to blue-sky engineering problems and targeted mission needs

- Design, analyze, implement, and test complex electro-mechanical systems

- Maintain high-level system ownership with large levels of professional autonomy

- Participate in design reviews, integration and test campaigns, launch-site and on-orbit operations campaigns

- Build prototypes, analyze failures, and transition successful projects into production

- Mentor engineers and help them learn the art of small spacecraft design and test

- Support critical hardware demonstrations with customers as needed

- Travel to test sites as needed

- Use first principles, physics, and personal experience as a basis for every decision

- Identify partners in industry to engage with, and manage early vendor relationships

## Requirements

- Experience in an immersive technical project (professional settings)

- Demonstrated leadership skills

- 20+ years of mechanical and mechanism design experience in a professional setting

- 10+ years designing systems for spacecraft and associated space systems

- Experience in ground-up system design and any 3-D CAD

- Hands-on assembly, prototyping, testing, and performance characterization of mechanisms designed for 0g but in a 1g environment

- Experience designing and building very small mechanisms, components, and systems

- Familiarity with launch environments, testing for launch environments, range safety, and system integration efforts

- Demonstrated creativity and “out of the box thinking” for spacecraft mechanisms with an eye toward simplicity and reliability

- High competence with, and fluid use of, engineering first principles

- Strong organizational skills

- BS, MS or PhD in an engineering field, or equivalent work experience

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

- Ability to work within our company and team culture

- Ability to be pragmatic about problem solving

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience machining and modifying mechanical components

- Outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills

- Familiarity with designing MGSE to support spacecraft testing and development

- Experience with Electro-Mechanical design concepts and working at the interface between electrical and mechanical components

- Practical experience with electrical engineering tools (Oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, multimeters)

- 3+ years of experience working in a classified environment

## Benefits

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

## Skills

### Required
- mechanical design
- mechanism design
- spacecraft systems
- electro-mechanical systems
- leadership
- project management
- engineering first principles
- 3-D CAD
- system integration

### Nice to have
- machining
- Electro-Mechanical design
- electrical engineering tools
- classified environment experience
- MGSE design

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