Senior Systems Engineer

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Anduril Industries is hiring a Senior Systems Engineer for its Maneuver Dominance team in Costa Mesa, California. The team develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy and is growing an early-stage autonomous air vehicle program focused on heavily modifying an existing platform and integrating advanced autonomy, mission systems, and payloads. The role is the technical authority for bringing a next-generation autonomous Group 5 Rotorcraft from concept to reality, working closely with mechanical, structural, electrical, and software engineers, program leads, and customers in a lean, high-ownership environment.

The engineer will own the system’s behavior, interfaces, and architecture; maintain requirements and configuration baselines; and lead test planning, execution, verification, and validation. The role also leads technical milestone and gate reviews, including SRR, CoDR, PDR, CDR, and TRR, and helps determine technical readiness to proceed. The position requires travel to support program and test events, up to 25 percent.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
• At least 6 years of systems engineering experience on complex hardware and software vehicles.
• Experience owning requirements and interface baselines across multiple subsystem teams.
• Experience planning and executing verification campaigns on physical hardware.
• Customer focus and ability to formulate and implement plans to resolve technical engineering problems.
• Ability to travel to 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.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience architecting full-rotorcraft systems, including hybrid/electric powertrains on high-performance Group 4/5 Tactical UAS.
• Familiarity with Model-based Product Line Engineering (MBPLE) and ISO 26262.
• Experience with relevant testing MIL-STDs, such as MIL-STD-810H and MIL-STD-461/464.
• Familiarity with safety standard MIL-STD-882E.
• Experience in defense or aerospace robotic platforms.
• Familiarity with MBSE tools such as SysML v1.X, SysML v2, Cameo Systems Modeler, JAMA Connect, DOORS, DOORS Next Gen, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Define the system’s behavior, interfaces, and architecture, and communicate critical issues and gaps to the team and leadership.
• Maintain configuration control, requirements traceability, risk management, and controlled technical baselines, capturing variant modeling and deviations.
• Define the technical test approach, pass/fail criteria, and procedures; execute testing and assess whether results demonstrate readiness.
• Own the technical content and outcomes of System Requirements Reviews, Conceptual Design Reviews, Preliminary Design Reviews, Critical Design Reviews, and Test Readiness Reviews.
• Deploy right-sized Agile Systems Engineering governance that supports rapid development while maintaining process discipline.
• Lead a test-as-a-design-tool approach to mature components, subsystems, and the full vehicle through a structured verification campaign.
• Work with customers and end users to evolve the Concept of Operations and define high-level requirements.
• Develop and manage system requirements baselines, tracing program-level needs to subsystem specifications.
• Manage system interfaces, maintain Interface Control Documents, and lead change control across subsystem teams.
• Define and execute the system verification and validation plan, including maintaining the requirements verification matrix.
• Resolve conflicting design requirements and drive technical solutions across engineering teams.
• Prepare and present technical data for major design reviews.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

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