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Discovery Engineer

Anduril· AFS : Discovery Engineering
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Costa Mesa, California$166k - $220kPosted 1mo ago

About the role

Anduril Industries is seeking a Discovery Engineer to tackle hard, unproven concepts across space, missiles, air, sensors, autonomy, and cyber. The role is hands-on and project-based within Anduril’s Discovery Business Line, requiring rapid domain learning, model/prototype development, rigorous testing, and clear communication to engineers, leadership, and customers.

Responsibilities

  • Own new concepts from first idea through analysis, prototype, and test, and drive them to a validated answer
  • Learn new domains fast enough to do real work in them: read the references, build the model, check it against known results, then extend it
  • Build or adapt the models, simulations, and test setups the question needs, using existing tools where they fit and building where they do not
  • Pressure-test your own and others' work: hunt failure modes, surface hidden assumptions, and stress trade studies before decisions are locked in
  • Use AI tools as a force multiplier for research, code, and analysis, and know when their output has to be checked against a reference
  • Work shoulder to shoulder with Hardware, Software, GNC, and the other teams at Anduril, and translate results into decisions that change the design
  • Communicate results to engineers, leadership, and customers, including strong visual presentation of complex data

Qualifications

  • Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
  • Demonstrated experience working in more than one technical area
  • You have done things: designed, built, tested, or fielded something real, in any field
  • Proficiency in at least one physics-math scripting environment (Python with numpy/scipy, MATLAB/Simulink, Julia, or similar)
  • Strong written, verbal, and visual communication

Skills

Required:Active U.S. Top Secret clearanceMultidomain technical experienceHands-on prototyping and testingPhysics/math scriptingCommunication

Benefits

  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
  • Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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