Senior Systems Engineer (Warfighter Systems)
Anduril· Connected Warfare : Warfighter Systems Engineering : Hardware Engineering
Bellevue, WA, Costa Mesa, CA$166k - $220kfull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Senior Systems Engineer to manage the design and integration of complex systems, leading technical engagements with partners, designing across organizational boundaries, establishing reusable patterns, and owning intake processes within Anduril's Warfighter Systems and Connected Warfare domains.
Responsibilities
- Lead partner engagements end to end; Conduct the technical exchange, own the integration design, and drive open items to written resolution across both organizations.
- Design across organizational boundaries; Own the problems that span several engineering teams and more than one company, where no single team owns the answer. You lead through design, orchestration, and proof of concept.
- Establish reusable patterns; Convert what recurs across engagements into reference architectures, decision guidance, and integration documentation, and define the standard other teams document to.
- Own the intake process; Translate partner and field needs into scoped, prioritized engineering work, and return a documented decision on each request.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years in systems engineering, solutions architecture, integration engineering, technical program management, forward-deployed engineering, model based system engineering or systems modeling language.
- Experience as the technical lead to an external engineering team, or as the owner of a developer-facing platform surface with external or internal customers.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct a technical working session, hold a substantive technical position within it, document the resulting decisions, and track outstanding commitments on both sides.
- Reference architectures and integration guides an engineer can follow to completion. A writing sample is required.
- Demonstrated ability to convey the same technical decision to a partner's engineering team and to a senior military stakeholder.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
Skills
Required:Technical leadership with external teamsTechnical program executionTechnical writing
Benefits
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, comprehensive and competitive benefits package available at little to no cost.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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