Anduril Industries
Perception Systems Engineer
About this role
Anduril is hiring a Perception Systems Engineer to lead the development of sensing systems for autonomous aerial vehicles. You'll own the sensor architecture, establish performance baselines, and drive verification strategies that ensure perception capabilities meet mission requirements across multiple concurrent programs.
What you'll do
- Define perception system architecture and requirements, translating mission needs into detection, range, latency, and availability specifications
- Own the sensor suite baseline including modality selection, part numbers, installation locations, and platform-specific configurations
- Establish and defend the sensing performance model based on radiometry, detector physics, and flight test validation
- Develop verification and validation strategies spanning bench testing, hardware-in-the-loop, sensor characterization, and flight test evidence
- Lead sensor trade studies, design reviews, and gate reviews as technical authority on perception readiness
- Instrument and analyze flight tests, driving the data-to-requirements feedback loop and ensuring modularity across platforms
What they're looking for
- Electro-optical, LiDAR, or RADAR sensing systems design and integration
- Multi-modal sensor architecture and sensor selection
- Detection physics and radiometric modeling
- System architecture and interface definition
- Requirements traceability and verification/validation planning
- Flight test instrumentation and data analysis
- Technical leadership and cross-team coordination
- Standards and vendor engagement
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Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries builds autonomous defense systems including underwater vehicles, unmanned aircraft, and electronic warfare platforms for the Department of Defense. The company is hiring across mechanical engineering, mission operations, software development, technical leadership, and advanced manufacturing roles to support the design, deployment, and production of these mission-critical systems.
- Website
- anduril.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe a sensing system you owned from concept through fielded deployment—what were the key technical challenges and how did you resolve them?
- Walk us through how you would decompose a specific mission requirement into sensor, compute, and algorithm allocations.