Anduril Industries
Systems Engineer, Space
About this role
Anduril Industries seeks Systems Engineers to join its Space Special Programs team in the Chantilly/Herndon, VA area. You'll guide spacecraft and space systems through their complete lifecycle—from requirements and design through integration, testing, and on-orbit operations—while collaborating across engineering disciplines and stakeholders.
What you'll do
- Manage requirements, risks, budgets, and trade studies for spacecraft systems throughout design, development, integration, and operations
- Coordinate with multiple spacecraft engineering disciplines to ensure system compliance with requirements and mission objectives
- Conduct rapid prototyping, design verification, and qualification activities to advance product maturity
- Develop and maintain system requirements documentation and track subsystem compliance verification
- Create test plans, test procedures, and design review materials for customer and internal stakeholder communication
- Gain progressive expertise across requirements development, mission design, payload design, integration, test, and on-orbit operations
What they're looking for
- Systems engineering and spacecraft design principles
- Requirements management and traceability
- Space flight hardware design standards and guidelines
- Integration and test (I&T) processes
- Risk and trade study analysis
- Technical documentation and presentation
- Cross-functional team collaboration
- Mission design and on-orbit operations understanding
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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
- Walk us through your experience managing system requirements across multiple engineering disciplines.
- Describe a time you identified a critical risk or trade-off in a complex hardware project and how you resolved it.