Perception Systems EngineerNew$220K

Anduril Industries
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The opportunity

Anduril is seeking a Systems Engineer to support perception system development for the Maneuver Dominance, Enabling Technology team. The Maneuver Dominance (MD) Team at Anduril develops aerial robotic systems designed to operate in large coordinated teams in concert with ground maneuver forces.

What you'll do

  • Drive the perception system architecture and requirements baseline: decompose mission need into detection, range, field of regard, latency, and availability requirements, allocate them across sensing, compute, and algorithms, and keep them traceable through to test evidence

  • Own the sensor suite baseline and its configuration across platforms,: including which modalities and part numbers are in the baseline for each aircraft variant, where they are installed, and the interfaces to the programs and airframes that carry them

  • Set and defend the sensing performance model: detection probability and false alarm rate against target size, reflectivity, range, aspect, illumination, and weather, built up from radiometry and detector performance, and reconciled against measured flight test results

  • Drive the verification and validation strategy for perception: verification plans, bench and hardware in the loop coverage, sensor characterization test, flight test objectives, data collection needs, and the evidence package that demonstrates a capability is ready to graduate onto a program aircraft

  • Provide the technical authority at design and gate reviews, judging whether: perception evidence is sufficient and coverage is complete, and holding the line when it is not

  • Lead sensor trades that resolve real forks, framing the decision, defining: the criteria, running the analysis, and documenting the result so it survives the people who made it

What they're looking for

  • Experience with learned perception in a safety relevant system, including: evaluation gates, dataset and labeling strategy, and the argument for why a model's measured performance is trustworthy
  • Experience with embedded compute and SWaP-C budgeting for airborne: perception, including latency budgets end to end from photon to autonomy input
  • Experience with environmental qualification of airborne sensors, for example: MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-461, and with airworthiness or certification evidence for aircraft
  • Experience transitioning a capability out of development and into a delivery: program or product line, including the evidence handoff
  • Experience as a technical lead or principal investigator, in a matrixed or IRAD funded environment
  • Experience with requirements management tooling such as Jama, including: traceability from requirement through to verification evidence
  • Participation in a standards or industry body relevant to airborne sensing or: airspace integration, for example RTCA or SAE committee work