Senior Systems Engineer

The Anduril Imaging team develops state-of-the-art imaging systems across both hardware and software deployed to tackle the most significant security challenges of America and its allies. The team is heavily involved in utilizing computer vision perception electro-optical infrared and sensor data to give our war fighters and allies an advantage.

We are seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer to join our team as we transition a Ladar product from the Engineering Development Unit (EDU) phase through Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) and ultimately into high-rate production.

You will play a pivotal role in scaling our build capacity to 10s of units per month. You will bridge the gap between design and manufacturing lead rigorous testing campaigns and help mature our hardware and software systems to achieve high Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) ahead of our upcoming Critical Design Review (CDR) and Manufacturing Readiness Review (MRR).

A successful candidate will have a strong background in Electro-Optical (EO) systems precision pointing and a passion for transitioning complex hardware from R&D to the production floor.

WHAT YOULL DO

• 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

REQUIRED 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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with software/hardware integration specifically defining software interfaces UI productization and background software requirements.
• Experience with software/firmware automated test frameworks.
• Knowledge of current and next-generation advanced sensing systems and platforms

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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