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Salary: USD 191,000 - 253,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. The company's Lattice OS is an AI-powered operating system that converts thousands of data streams into real-time 3D command and control centers. Anduril brings cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to military applications.
The Discovery team tackles the hardest, unproven concepts across space, missiles, air, sensors, autonomy, and cyber domains. As a Senior Discovery Engineer specializing in Modeling & Simulation, you will own new concepts from initial idea through analysis, prototype, and test, driving them to validated answers. You are not hired for a specific skill set but for a demonstrated record of engaging across different technical areas, analytical rigor, and the ability to test new concepts and reach solutions.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own new concepts from first idea through analysis, prototype, and test
- Learn new domains rapidly: read references, build models, validate against known results, then extend
- Build or adapt models, simulations, and test setups as needed, using existing tools where appropriate and building custom solutions where necessary
- Pressure-test your own and others' work: identify failure modes, surface hidden assumptions, stress trade studies before decisions lock in
- Leverage AI tools as a force multiplier for research, code, and analysis, with judgment about when outputs require validation
- Collaborate shoulder-to-shoulder with Hardware, Software, GNC, and other teams; translate results into design decisions
- Communicate results to engineers, leadership, and customers with strong visual presentation of complex data
This is a hands-on technical role on internally and externally funded programs within Anduril's Discovery Business Line, operating on operationally relevant timelines.
REQUIREMENTS:
Required:
- Currently possess and able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
- Demonstrated experience working in more than one technical area
- Proven track record of designing, building, testing, or fielding something real in any field
- Proficiency in at least one physics-math scripting environment (Python with numpy/scipy, MATLAB/Simulink, Julia, or similar)
- Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills
Preferred:
- 8+ years in a relevant science/engineering field
- Math, physics, or engineering degree or equivalent
- Proficiency with AI tools (coding assistants, agents, model-driven research) in day-to-day engineering work, with judgment about when to trust their output
- Experience across several domains: space systems, missiles and missile defense, air vehicles, GNC, sensors and sensor fusion, radar, EW, acoustics, autonomy, or similar (breadth valued over depth in any single area)
- Familiarity with domain analysis tools (STK/Astrogator, AFSIM, HFSS, Fluent, or similar)
