Senior Systems Engineer

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a real‑time, 3D command and control center.

As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting‑edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

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.

• 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.

• 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…