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Anduril

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
Costa MesaCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Sep 18, 2025
Salary
$166,000–$253,000 a year
Full-time

Senior Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike

Job description

Products these teams work on: Fury - Manufacturing Contract Barracuda - Manufacturing Contract Roadrunner Omen Thunder

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center.

Anduril has been selected as one of two vendors to move forward on…

Job requirements

  • A Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field is a plus.
  • Strong understanding of flight mechanics and related physics.
  • Practical experience developing GNC designs for flight systems.
  • Extensive experience in GNC system and architecture development and testing, preferably in the aerospace industry.
  • Experience generating in C or C++ code from Simulink models.
  • Proven experience in applying MDAO methods and tools in the design of complex systems.
  • Experience with direct and indirect trajectory optimization methods and familiarity with trajectory optimization libraries (e.g., GPOPS-ii, DIDO, Dymos, CasADi, or IPOPT).
  • Experience writing code in C/C++ or Rust.

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