Airworthiness Engineer, Omen

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Anduril is seeking a Senior Airworthiness Engineer to join the Omen team at its Costa Mesa headquarters. Omen is a hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle designed to deliver the endurance, payload, and mission flexibility of larger aircraft in a runway-independent Group 3 platform. The role supports airworthiness for Omen developmental and production aircraft, including aircraft intended to fly in the United States and internationally. The engineer will help establish airworthiness strategy and certification approaches, author and maintain plans and documentation, and represent airworthiness in design, engineering governance, and flight-test activities. The position calls for a pragmatic approach to airworthiness and systems safety in a lean, high-ownership environment where employees are expected to move quickly and develop creative solutions to technical and execution challenges.

The successful candidate will engage customers, end users, and regulatory authorities to agree on suitable airworthiness frameworks and standards; support regional regulatory processes and submissions; and ensure customer certification objectives are realized throughout the product lifecycle. Airworthiness activities are managed in a digital environment interconnected with system requirements, program schedules, flight-test planning, and risk assessments. The role also includes contributing to the flight-test program execution schedule. Employment is based at Anduril's Costa Mesa headquarters.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or an aviation-related engineering discipline.
• At least 8 years of airworthiness engineering experience.
• Experience with safety-critical hardware and software systems in the defense or aerospace industries, particularly crewed aircraft, rotorcraft, Group 3 or larger UAS, or weapon systems.
• Extensive knowledge of AC 23-1309-1E, MIL-STD-882E, MIL-STD-516C airworthiness, AC-17-01, and other relevant safety standards.
• Experience establishing and maintaining relationships with civil and military airworthiness authorities, including DoD, FAA, and/or EASA.
• Proven experience working with civil and military airworthiness processes, including MIL-HDBK-516 series documents, throughout the lifecycle of a developmental aircraft to successful program completion.
• Familiarity with technical software packages such as Relyence, Teamcenter, JIRA, JAMA, Cameo, and/or Ansys.
• Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Commitment to a positive, inclusive, and collaborative culture.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a security clearance in the United States, United Kingdom, or Australia.
• Must undergo pre-employment and randomized substance screening as required by the company.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or an aviation-related technical discipline.
• At least 15 years of airworthiness engineering experience.
• Systems engineering and airworthiness experience with large UAS airworthiness authorizations.
• Experience authoring and submitting FAA Certificates of Waiver or Authorization (COA).
• Previous experience as an Airworthiness Engineering Lead or Airworthiness Engineer.
• Airworthiness experience on a team that executed the first flight of a manned or large UAS developmental aircraft.
• Experience working with the EASA SORA framework for UAS.
• Understanding of high-voltage and high-power systems or hybrid powertrains.

Responsibilities

• Develop and author airworthiness certification and conformance plans for Omen developmental and production aircraft.
• Develop a pragmatic, appropriately scaled airworthiness and systems-safety approach to support Omen capability realization.
• Engage customers, end users, and local regulatory authorities to identify and negotiate airworthiness frameworks and recognized standards, and establish the airworthiness strategy for design efforts.
• Develop airworthiness plans and documentation in support of regional regulatory processes and submissions.
• Represent airworthiness in System Design Reviews, Preliminary Design Reviews, Critical Design Reviews, Test Readiness Reviews, and Safety Review Boards.
• Ensure customer airworthiness certification objectives are systematically realized, including tailoring traditional airworthiness processes and updating plans throughout the product lifecycle.
• Develop, author, and maintain airworthiness activities in a digital environment connected to system requirements, schedules, flight-test point matrices, and risk assessments.
• Provide input to the flight-test program execution schedule.
• Develop creative solutions to technical and execution challenges.

Benefits

• Competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of total compensation.
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior