Systems Engineer - Missile Defense

Anduril • Colorado Springs, CO

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Space Ground Systems Engineering team solves mathematical, physical, and algorithmic problems at the core of next-generation missile defense and fire control systems. The team addresses battle-management challenges such as fusing real-time sensor streams into track data, optimizing weapon-target assignments under uncertainty, and providing high-confidence fire-control schedules to warfighters.

The Systems Engineer - Missile Defense will bridge systems engineering, applied physics, and mathematical optimization to solve complex missile defense problems. The role includes designing track-fusion pipelines, developing threat-assignment algorithms, and conducting sensitivity analyses across complex architectures. The engineer will apply mathematics, physics, and algorithm development using Python or C++, with an understanding of sensor data and battle-management workflows. The position is based in Huntsville, Alabama, or Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Requirements

• Currently possess and be able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• At least 5 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s, master’s, or Ph.D. in aerospace engineering, applied mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• Strong mastery of applied mathematics, physics, and programming.
• Proficiency in Python and/or C++ for mathematical modeling and algorithm development, including the ability to write robust code to solve mathematical problems.
• Experience with Windows, Linux, and MATLAB.
• Exposure to missile defense concepts, radar or sensor processing, flight dynamics, TOM, threat intelligence, discrimination algorithms, sensor-tracking algorithms, kill assessment, integrating algorithms into operational systems, or fire-control systems such as GMD, NGI, SM3, Aegis, IBCS, C2BMC, or SBI.

Nice To Haves

• Top Secret / SCI eligibility preferred.
• Military or defense operations experience is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and solve complex physics problems using mathematical techniques, including object detection, tracking, and discrimination.
• Develop weapon-target assignment, sensor-allocation, and fire-control scheduling algorithms.
• Work on system architecture components that ingest raw or processed sensor data, perform track fusion, and classify threats.
• Design, conduct, and defend trade studies, sensitivity analyses, and parametric evaluations to determine system boundaries and validate performance.
• Translate mathematical equations into functional Python or C++ code for non-customer-facing modeling, simulation, and algorithm verification.
• Connect low-level physics and threat-intelligence inputs with high-level mission outputs.

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, comprehensive, competitive benefits for full-time employees, available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

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