Principal Engineer, cUAS Lead, OmenNew$292K

The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. Omen is Anduril’s hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle (AAV) that packs the endurance, payload, and mission flexibility of much larger airplanes into a novel runway-independent Group 3 platform.

What you'll do

• Own the counter-UAS effector payload end to end, from first prototype to qualified production hardware.

• Design the effector and firing system. Mounting structure, recoil and impulse: management, feed and cycling, safe and arm interlocks.

• Own the steering hardware. Size the actuators, gearing, and drives, and: design the isolation that protects the airframe from firing loads and the effector from rotor wash.

• Hold the pointing error budget and know where every part of it goes.

• Select and evaluate the sensors that range and locate the target. Bench and: flight characterization for range accuracy, latency, and track quality against small targets in clutter.

• Build and lead the team. Hire across mechanical, electrical, firmware, and: test, set the technical bar, and establish how the team works.

What they're looking for

• Direct experience with weapon, effector, launcher, or ordnance-adjacent systems, including safe and arm design
• Counter-UAS experience, whether engagement chains, fire control, or targeting small unmanned aircraft
• VTOL, tail-sitter, or rotorcraft experience, and familiarity with the payload: environment they create (vibration, EMI, rotor wash)
• Experience with stabilized pointing, gimbals, boresighting, or targeting chains
• Familiarity with fire control, including lead and ballistic solutions and sensor-to-effector latency
• Environmental qualification testing (MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461)
• Airworthiness experience with external stores
• MATLAB/Simulink, multibody dynamics, or FEA for transient structural loads