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Salary: USD 200,000 - 253,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Staff Mission Systems Engineer specializing in Electronic Warfare to join the Air Dominance and Strike (AD&S) mission systems team. This role focuses on developing autonomous air systems with advanced electronic warfare capabilities.
You will own the electronic warfare capability of Group 5 autonomous platforms, including threat characterization, effects delivery, and mission-level EW requirements. Key responsibilities include:
• Define and validate the complete electronic support chain—wideband channelization, pulse descriptor word generation and deinterleaving, emitter classification, specific emitter identification, direction finding, and geolocation—and specify onboard processing requirements.
• Own electronic attack employment definition and validation, including technique selection and generation, DRFM-based deception, jamming assignment, and power management under various geometry and J/S conditions.
• Run and review comprehensive EW link budgets covering effective radiated power, receiver sensitivity, dynamic range, probability of intercept, antenna patterns, and aperture placement; translate available margin into concrete employment options and range envelopes.
• Build and maintain modeling, simulation, and threat-emulation environments to evaluate EW effectiveness against representative threat laydowns; develop lab benches to characterize payload performance in contested and degraded 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.
The ideal candidate will derive effective radiated power and receiver sensitivity link budgets, then decide what to do with them—which emitters matter, which techniques defeat them, at what geometry and range, and what that demands of the airframe's power, SWaP, and mission profile. 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:
• 12+ years of 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:
• Experience with electronic order of battle development, ELINT/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, analyst)
• Familiarity with COMSEC procedures, key management infrastructure (KMI/SKL), and cryptographic material handling
• 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
