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Senior Systems Engineer

Anduril· Mission Systems : Imaging Engineering : Imaging - System Engineering,Integration and Test
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Boulder, CO$143k - $191kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Systems Engineer role focused on transitioning a Ladar/EO imaging product from EDU to EMD and into production, scaling production capacity, and maturing hardware and software systems to high TRLs ahead of CDR and MRR.

Responsibilities

  • - Drive the EDU-to-EMD Transition: Oversee the deployment and test of our EDU builds, ensuring they are fully prepared to support field testing to demonstrate system capability and performance.
  • - Lead Qualification & Testing: Design and execute a comprehensive Design Verification Testing (DVT) campaign to environmentally test and qualify the system.
  • - Prepare for Major Milestones: Author technical documentation, define verification matrices, and lead systems-level preparation for upcoming Critical Design Reviews (CDR) and Manufacturing Readiness Reviews (MRR).
  • - Scale for Production: Collaborate with manufacturing and hardware teams to implement Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles. Scale our production capabilities from a few units per year to a target volume of ~10s of systems per month.
  • - Optimize Test Infrastructure: Architect, design, and ruggedize manufacturing test equipment for efficiency, throughput, and reliability on the production floor.
  • - Automate & Integrate: Collaborate with software and firmware teams to implement robust test automation, while pushing the user interface (UI) and background software towards product-level maturity.
  • - Adapt or derive physics-based models of sensor system performance and derive requirements based on those models, and validate models against laboratory and real world data
  • - Support both laboratory-based and field-based experiments and demonstrations

Qualifications

  • - EO/Ladar Domain Expertise: 5+ years of hardware-centric systems engineering experience working with Electro-Optical (EO) systems, Ladar/Lidar, or high-precision pointing systems.
  • - Development-to-Production Experience: Direct experience transitioning complex, multidisciplinary systems from low Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) to high TRL / production-ready status.
  • - Testing & Environmental Qualification: Strong familiarity with DVT campaigns, environmental testing standards, and field testing operations.
  • - Production Scaling Mindset: Practical knowledge of Design for Manufacturing (DFM), test equipment ruggedization, and test process optimization/automation.
  • - Milestone Execution: Experience leading or heavily contributing to systems engineering reviews such as CDR, MRR, or PRR.
  • - Collaboration & Communication: Outstanding ability to communicate across multidisciplinary teams (optical, mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, and manufacturing).
  • - Advanced proficiency in an analytical toolchains/languages (e.g., MATLAB, Python)
  • - Strong laboratory skills (e.g. design of experiments)
  • - Willingness to travel to test sites.
  • - Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance.

Skills

Required:EO/Ladar domain expertiseSystems engineering for development-to-productionDesign verification testing (DVT)Design for Manufacturing (DFM)Milestone leadership (CDR, MRR, PRR)Collaboration across disciplinesMATLAB/PythonLaboratory skills

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (health, recovery, and related support) available to full-time employees
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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