Lead Scientist, Strategic DefenseActive$31K

Anduril Industries
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The opportunity

The Strategic Defense team develops and fields software-defined command-and-control capabilities for the most demanding Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) missions. The team connects distributed sensors, battle-management functions, fire-control systems, and effectors to…

What you'll do

  • Lead system and mission architecture for end-to-end IAMD kill chains spanning: sensing, track formation, identification, threat evaluation, weapon assignment, engagement planning, fire-control execution, and kill assessment.

  • Define and mature fire-control functionality, including engagement-quality: track requirements, sensor-to-shooter interfaces, weapon-control integration, timing and latency budgets, safety constraints, and engagement-sequence logic.

  • Develop dynamic sensor-tasking approaches that allocate and coordinate: distributed sensors based on threat priority, track quality, geometry, resource availability, defended-asset priorities, and anticipated engagement needs.

  • Translate operational concepts, threat scenarios, and customer needs into: testable system requirements, behaviors, interfaces, and performance measures.

  • Decompose mission objectives into subsystem requirements and maintain: traceability from operational need through architecture, implementation, verification, and validation.

  • Perform and review technical analyses involving detection and tracking: performance, sensor coverage, track quality, discrimination, system latency, raid handling, resource allocation, engagement timelines, and probability of mission success.

What they're looking for

  • Direct experience with one or more operational air or missile defense: ecosystems, such as IBCS, AEGIS, C2BMC, THAAD, Patriot, LTAMDS, Sentinel, G/ATOR, NASAMS, or comparable U.S. or allied systems.
  • Experience developing or integrating battle-management and: command-and-control software for layered air and missile defense.
  • Deep knowledge of radar search, detection, track formation, discrimination,: track correlation, measurement scheduling, or sensor resource management.
  • Experience with integrated fire-control networks, cooperative engagement,: composite tracking, or remote sensor-to-shooter engagements.
  • Knowledge of interceptor and weapon-system behavior, including launch: envelopes, guidance concepts, in-flight target updates, defended-asset planning, and engagement sequencing.
  • Experience designing for contested communications, intermittent connectivity,: distributed operations, electronic attack, cyber constraints, or degraded sensor environments.
  • Experience with tactical data links, military messaging, government reference: architectures, and defense interface standards.
  • Experience with model-based systems engineering and tools such as Cameo/MagicDraw, SysML, UAF, or DoDAF.