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Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Airworthiness Engineer to develop and author airworthiness certification and conformance plans for developmental and production aircraft. You will support Flight Releases, Type Certification, tailored airworthiness, and FAA general use airspace integration across all military services.
In this role, you will perform technical airworthiness planning, tracking, and verification support within a digital environment. You'll develop and negotiate airworthiness bases of certification, means of compliance, and other certification activities. You will cultivate total-system airworthiness relationships between engineers and technical authorities, including customer partners.
Key responsibilities include guiding technical reviews with airworthiness engineers and engineering disciplines across the total system design, development, and test processes. You will perform functional and process analyses, requirements allocation, and definition studies with program engineers and customer representatives. You'll facilitate interactions that translate customer requirements into criteria and derived requirements.
You will ensure the logical and systematic realization of customer airworthiness certification objectives, including tailoring traditional airworthiness processes and continuously evaluating and updating airworthiness plans throughout the product lifecycle. You'll proactively support and guide all design development towards airworthiness compliance and support all processes leading to successful issuance of a Military Flight Release (MFR) or other customer-specific airworthiness approval.
You will develop, author, and maintain all airworthiness activities in a digital environment interconnected with system requirements, program schedules, flight test point matrices, and risk assessments. Using digital infrastructure, you'll perform statistical analysis of program performance and provide input to the flight test program execution schedule.
Required: Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or aviation-related engineering; 8+ years airworthiness engineering experience; experience establishing and maintaining relationships with DoD and FAA airworthiness authorities; experience with DoD Airworthiness Policy Directives, Instructions, and Airworthiness Bulletins; proven experience with DoD and FAA airworthiness processes including MIL-HDBK-516 series documents throughout the lifecycle of developmental aircraft; experience developing and managing airworthiness plans; experience with manned or UAS developmental military aircraft; ability to develop and execute airworthiness certification process improvement initiatives; strong written and verbal communication skills; proficiency with MATLAB, JIRA, DOORS, MS Office, CATIA, 3DX; eligible to obtain and maintain active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
