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Systems Engineer, Air Defense

Anduril· AFS: Air Defense Engineering : Systems Engineering
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Irvine, CA$113k - $149kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Systems Engineer role on Anduril's Air Defense team, responsible for end-to-end system integration of hardware and software, requirements decomposition, and ensuring deployed solutions meet customer needs across diverse deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the integration of emerging capabilities, bringing new products into the family of systems. This may include scoping and executing on a combination of hardware and software solutions, both internal and external to the company.
  • Lead requirements decomposition across cross-functional teams, defining success in the face of ambiguity.
  • Responsible for scoping ideal system laydown, scrutinizing system performance, and ensuring the deployed system is meeting customer requirements. Also responsible for making tradeoffs across capability, timelines, risk, cost, and other factors to deliver an outcome.
  • Own systems end to end with the ability to identify and solve problems between the seams and push through to reach an ultimate outcome.

Qualifications

  • 2-4 years of hardware and software systems engineering experience.
  • Degree in Engineering, Physics, Robotics, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • Demonstrated use of model based systems engineering in program lifecycle.
  • Experience with tools such as: JAMA, Cameo, Matlab, Simulink, AFSIM.
  • Experience with programming languages such as Python, C/C++, or Rust for analysis and simulation.
  • Skilled in Statistics, AI/ML, MBSE, Requirements.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in the application of engineering standards into engineering processes or requirements.
  • Demonstrated experience collaborating across cross-functional teams.
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity, evolving priorities, and challenging problems.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States.
  • Up to 25% travel to customer sites.

Skills

Required:Hardware and software systems engineeringModel Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)Requirements decompositionTradeoff analysisCommunication and presentationAmbiguity tolerance

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, including health coverage and recovery support.
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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