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Salary: USD 166,000 - 220,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Senior Mission Systems Engineer with deep expertise in Electronic Warfare (EW) to join the Air Dominance and Strike (AD&S) mission systems team. This role focuses on developing autonomous air systems that deliver exceptional warfighter outcomes.
You will own how Group 5 autonomous platforms sense, characterize, and act on the electromagnetic spectrum. The ideal candidate will derive effective radiated power and receiver sensitivity link budgets, then determine which emitters matter, which techniques defeat them, at what geometry and range, and what that demands of the airframe's power, size, weight, and power (SWaP) and mission profile.
Key responsibilities include:
- Define electronic warfare capability of Group 5 autonomous platforms—threat sets to counter, effects to deliver, and mission-level EW requirements
- Own the electronic support chain end-to-end: wideband channelization, pulse descriptor word generation and deinterleaving, emitter classification and specific emitter identification, direction finding and geolocation
- Define and validate electronic attack employment: technique selection and generation, DRFM-based deception, jamming assignment and power management
- Run and review EW link budgets (ERP, receiver sensitivity, dynamic range, probability of intercept, antenna patterns) and translate available margin into employment options and range envelopes
- Build and maintain modeling, simulation, and threat-emulation environments to evaluate EW effectiveness; maintain lab benches to characterize payload performance in contested conditions prior to flight
- Own selection, integration, and lab-to-flight qualification of EW payloads, including vendor and subcontractor technical direction, within power, cooling, SWaP, and mission-duration budgets
- Collaborate with RF, networking, avionics, autonomy, and software engineers to deconflict EW operation against the platform's own datalinks and sensors; translate mission requirements into EW system engineering specifications traced through design, test, and flight
This role requires deep, specific electronic warfare experience: fluency in algorithms inside electronic support and electronic attack systems, and real understanding of how those systems are tasked, planned, and employed against a live threat laydown. You will begin with mission-level outcomes and drive to solutions through appropriate modeling, domain expertise, and vendor engagement. Travel up to 30% as needed.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years experience in electronic warfare systems engineering, EW capability development, or EW systems analysis
- Expert-level understanding of algorithms underlying electronic support and electronic attack systems (channelization, pulse deinterleaving, PDW processing, emitter classification, direction finding, geolocation, technique generation)
- Expert-level understanding of EW methods of employment—how ES and EA capabilities are tasked, planned, and employed against threat laydowns; how technique selection changes with threat mode, geometry, and range
- Demonstrated ability to build and critically review EW and RF link budgets (ERP, receiver sensitivity, dynamic range, J/S ratio, burn-through range, probability of intercept)
- Experience translating spectrum and power availability into mission-level employment recommendations and range envelopes
- Experience with RF and EW test equipment (spectrum analyzers, signal generators, vector network analyzers, threat simulators)
- Advanced knowledge of systems engineering processes (test case development, requirements enumeration, unit vs. system-level testing)
- Ability to decompose mission-level and system-level requirements into EW engineering specifications and coordinate with requirements management for traceability
- Proficiency in test script development and signal analysis using common languages (Python, Bash, MATLAB)
- Must hold a U.S. Secret security clearance
- Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with electronic order of battle development, ELINT and ESM parametric data, or threat library generation
- Experience with DRFM-based systems and digital technique generation
- Experience with electronic protection (radar warning receivers, self-protect suites, EMCON discipline, LPI/LPD, anti-jam, anti-spoof measures)
- Experience with EW modeling and simulation or campaign analysis tools (AFSIM, Suppressor, or equivalent)
- Experience with spectrum deconfliction between EW payloads and onboard communications, navigation, and sensor systems
- Operational or mission-planning background in EW or SIGINT (EWO, EW mission planner, or analyst)
- Familiarity with COMSEC procedures, key management infrastructure (KMI/SKL), and handling of cryptographic material
- Experience managing vendor or subcontractor technical deliverables (COTS/GOTS evaluation, technical interchange meetings, integration milestone tracking)
- Hands-on experience integrating EW payloads onto UAS or other autonomous platforms
