Staff Systems Engineer - Payload LeadPosted today$253K

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U. S.

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

• Drive modularity and reuse so that perception ports across platforms,: including sensor abstraction, interface stability under sensor substitution, and open mission system alignment
• Set the sensing engineering practice that others inherit: how we model performance, how we characterize a sensor, and what constitutes proof, so that each new effort starts from an established method rather than reinventing one
• Own perception in the air: instrument flight tests, be at the aircraft for them, and drive the analysis loop from collected data back into requirements and architecture
• Represent Anduril externally as a technical authority on airborne sensing,: including standards and industry bodies, sensor vendors and development partners, and technical engagement with customers