Systems Engineer, Air Defense

Anduril • Irvine, CA

19h • Onsite

About The Position

We're seeking a System Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Irvine, CA. This role provides an opportunity for immediate impact on real-world operations. Our focus is on creating groundbreaking technology that operators need and trust, and all your work will feed into this. This engineer will work on time synchronization and navigation accuracy across multiple vehicles (GPS-based timing sync, multi-sensor position fusion), and writes interface specs with an outside manufacturing partner. You will go deep to learn about gaps in existing defense capabilities, engage with users, synthesize feedback, and build the product infrastructure to support our goals. Anduril is a rapidly growing company, and the right person for this role should be able to work in partnership with engineers and leadership, and thrive in a fast-paced environment with many competing priorities. You often will be expected to self direct, and to be comfortable navigating ambiguity. You will quickly take ownership of an Air Defense Program to solve specific challenges, craft your own vision for what the technical success of that initiative looks like, and own the execution of that vision through cross functional execution.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4+ years experience as an engineer in an autonomous systems, robotics, or software development environment.
• Proven client-facing technical program management and/or systems engineering experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domains
• Direct experience with GNSS/GPS timing, navigation systems, or multi-sensor position/timing fusion - this is a specific technical niche
• Experience writing specs or interfaces that an external partner company builds against
• A strong familiarity with robotics, sensor integrations, or computer vision systems and their architecture preferred.
• Proven experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments
• Experience working in a rapidly iterating test environment with high levels of integration with software development teams.
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams.
• Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must be able to obtain a minimum Secret Clearance.
• Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time

Nice To Haves

• Experience in building programs for software and testing deliverables from ground up.
• Prior experience in working on a vehicle/robotics platform
• Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions
• Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction.
• Experience in rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes
• Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions
• Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or an Engineering discipline

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives.
• Act as the primary technical liaison for the client, advocate for their needs within the engineering organization and ensure their feedback directly influences the engineering roadmap.
• Communicate the outputs of these efforts including upcoming software releases, new capabilities, and performance improvement over time.
• Drive technical outcomes through meticulous understanding of system performance, drive product development through operational learnings and data, own the technical narrative from product deliver through continuous improvements.
• Credibly represent our system in front of technical and nontechnical clients
• Bring clarity to the path between engineering development and operational delivery. Whether through sprint planning and execution or on-the-ground support of test events, attack blockers and guide the team through fast-paced execution to deliver the optimal technical outcome for the client.
• Translate strategic business goals and program requirements into actionable project plans, setting clear milestones, and driving initiatives from conception through to successful completion, ensuring they deliver intended outcomes and add value to the business.
• Oversee the allocation of personnel, budget, and other resources to ensure successful execution of these initiatives.
• When possible, lead with data.
• Execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from external clients.
• Seize the opportunity to shape requirements in favor of the optimal product for the client and the company.
• Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work.
• Become a trusted partner to Anduril’s engineers.
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple teams and initiatives.
• Collaborate closely and even embed within partner teams, such as hardware, software, test, and field operations as needed.
• Support the drafting of technical proposals, ensuring that potential projects and scaling opportunities with each account are accurately scoped, resourced, and aligned with the organization's capabilities and strategic goals.
• Drive the alignment of the technical roadmap with the strategic vision

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
• top-tier benefits for full-time employees

What This Job Offers

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