# Senior Principal Chief Engineer

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Chantilly, Virginia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $292,000-$386,000 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.

As a Senior Principal Chief Engineer in the Space Special Programs team, you will help design spacecraft and space system architectures, build conceptual designs of missions and payloads, and work within a team of multidisciplinary engineers and specialists throughout the life of spacecraft design and integration process.

Responsibilities:

- Help design spacecraft and space system architectures

- Build conceptual designs of missions and payloads

- Work within a team of multidisciplinary engineers and specialists throughout the life of spacecraft design and integration process

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

- Draft and develop test plans for critical subsystems, and support vehicle level acceptance testing

- Develop interface controls for partners and customers for hardware, systems, and electrical integration of complex and unique payloads with existing and new Anduril spacecraft

- Support build and benchtop testing of new vehicle systems

- Support integration, testing, delivery, and operations of spacecraft and space subsystems

- Conduct hands-on spacecraft testing with occasional travel

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

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

Required Qualifications:

- 25+ years of industry experience designing spacecraft and spacecraft subsystems and participating in integration and operation campaigns, with a specialty in either electrical, mechanical, software, or systems engineering

- 10+ years of industry experience working with, understanding, and designing spacecraft system architectures

- 10+ years of industry experience leading a team of engineers to implement and deliver space flight hardware

- Familiarity with concepts of systems engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and practicalities of integration and test campaigns

- Demonstrated experience with conceptual design and vehicle system architectures

- Proven track record of progressing from clean sheet design to functioning hardware

- Hands-on build and prototyping of spacecraft systems

- A passion for mission, understanding the gaps which need to be filled, and designing/architecting systems to fill those gaps which can be quickly developed, integrated, tested, and delivered for operational capability

- Knowledge of electronics troubleshooting and ability to use basic test equipment

- Excellent ability to manage a team of engineers

- A sincere commitment to fostering a positive, inclusive, and collaborative culture

- Ability to travel as required for test planning and execution

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

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience designing RF transponders and other small form-factor RF equipment

- Hands-on manufacturing and/or flight testing experience

- Experience in design engineering

- Understanding of spacecraft development lifecycles, testing campaigns, and operational campaigns

Benefits:

- Highly competitive equity grants

- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive and competitive benefits package

## Skills

### Required
- spacecraft design
- systems engineering
- mechanical engineering
- electrical engineering
- integration and test campaigns
- spacecraft system architectures
- leadership

### Nice to have
- RF transponders
- small form-factor RF equipment
- hands-on manufacturing
- flight testing
- design engineering

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