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Systems Engineer, Strategic Defense

Anduril· AFS : Strategic Defense Engineering : Strategic Defense
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Huntsville, AL, Irvine, CA$126k - $167kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Systems Engineer role focusing on the Guam Defense System Battle Manager product, within Anduril's Strategic Defense team. Hybrid opportunities in Irvine, CA or Huntsville, AL, involving end-to-end system integration, requirements capture, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver hardware/software deployments for air defense command and control.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the capture of requirements and capabilities for system integrations
  • 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

  • 4-6 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 across 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 construction, management and traceability, test and evaluation, and verification and validation.
  • 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 75% travel to customer sites.

Skills

Required:Requirements capture and decompositionSystems integration leadershipTradeoff analysisCross-functional collaborationModel-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)Communication and presentationAmbiguity tolerance

Benefits

  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including health and recovery support (details available in benefits information).
  • Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers; part of total compensation package.
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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