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Systems Engineer, Launched Effects

Anduril· Tactical Recon & Strike
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Atlanta, GA$126k - $167kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Systems Engineer role in Anduril’s Tactical Recon & Strike division, focusing on safety-critical development for autonomous drones and solid rocket motor systems, driving system architecture, verification, testing, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Drive systems thinking, processes, and capabilities for core Anduril Products including Altius, Anvil, Bolt and Ghost.
  • Partner with product leads to scope, staff, and deliver capabilities to achieve company milestones working directly with the Business Lines to understand product requirements and deliverables.
  • Partner with functional engineering teams to drive architectural design for safety, reliability, usability, modularity, upgradability, maintainability, and diagnosability into systems, subsystems, and interfaces.
  • Drive system & subsystem requirements with functional engineering teams, defining risk reduction and verification & validation strategies for system of systems as well as subsystem assemblies.
  • Execute and manage System Hazard Analyses (SHAs) and subsystem Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FME(C)As) to drive safety and reliability centric requirements
  • Coordinate and execute test events involving various levels of system integration from in-lab software simulations to flight test.
  • Interpret & apply key industry & defense standard requirements for safety and interoperability, e.g. STANAG, MIL-STD-882, MIL-STD-464, MIL-STD-331, MIL-STD-1901A, JOTPs, etc.
  • Demonstrate strong ownership, acting as a trusted technical partner to functional engineers and leaders across the organization.
  • Ensure requirements are tied tightly to the organization’s capability roadmap, fostering efficient development and rapid iteration.
  • Identify and drive to resolution key cross-team dependencies and inefficiencies.
  • Autonomously lead and execute complex technical initiatives based on high-level goals from internal engineering, program office, and third-party partners, successfully delivering outcomes across multiple programs simultaneously.

Qualifications

  • Degree in Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field
  • 5+ years experience in defense or safety-critical industry, particularly with safety-critical development standards, reliability and safety fault/hazard analyses, and requirements-driven verification and validation strategies
  • Demonstrated proficiency in the application of engineering standards into engineering processes
  • Proven ability to be a self-starter and to own task & risks from identification through closure
  • Experience writing verifiable system-level, subsystem level, and software/hardware/component-level requirements
  • Experience conducting safety & reliability analyses such as PHAs, SHAs, FME(C)As, or FTAs
  • Experience and proficiency with systems and Python
  • Familiarity with modern software development practices and designs, unit testing, integration test, and release processes
  • Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers (JTAG, SWD, etc), current-probes, and automation of tests
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity, evolving priorities, and challenging problems
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Must be willing to travel for test field events up to 25%
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active Secret U.S. security clearance

Skills

Required:Systems engineeringSafety and reliability analysisRequirements engineeringSystem testing and validationCommunication

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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