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Chief Engineer, EW

Anduril· Mission Systems : Electromagnetic Warfare Engineering : EW Core Technologies
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Costa Mesa, CA$191k - $253kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Chief Architect and technical authority for Anduril’s advanced EW Airborne Survivability program, guiding multi-disciplinary engineering efforts from system-level design to integration and testing to deliver next-generation electronic warfare capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Technical Leadership: Serve as the chief engineer and technical authority, direct the design and implementation of system, sub-system, advanced algorithms and techniques for Electronic Warfare systems within the program scope.
  • Coordinate across engineering disciplines to ensure the system requirements and design are properly and thoroughly defined, captured. and executed.
  • Coordinate across production, maintenance, sustainment, and field operations to continually improve system usability, reliability, and performance, as well as integrate onto new platforms.
  • Collaborate closely with the Portfolio Chief Engineer/Architect to align product architecture, program deliverables with the broader technology roadmap, drive engineering standardization, and optimize shared technical resources.

Qualifications

  • Experience with Electronic Warfare systems utilizing Software Defined Radios
  • Experience with designing, developing, and testing hardware with FPGA, ARM, x86, and GPU compute architectures
  • Deep understanding of Electronic Support Measures (ESM) and Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) architecture-Digital Signal Processing, Model & Simulation, SW/FW-techniques, RF/EE/Antenna design.
  • Deep experience with Integration & Test (I&T) of RF based hardware systems in a lab or field environments
  • Experience with leading and coordinating cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Experience executing technical millstones internally and externally (Concept Review, SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.).
  • Excellent at balancing multiple projects at any given time and/or managing a larger team for a larger program.
  • Enthusiastic about working with a team and mentoring engineers
  • Some travel required.
  • Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret/Top Secret security clearance.

Skills

Required:Electronic Warfare systemsHardware design and testingESM/ECM architectureIntegration & Test (I&T)Technical leadership

Benefits

  • Highly competitive equity grants included in full-time offers; part of total compensation package
  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees (health, recovery, and more)
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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