- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- BoulderColoradoUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Sep 25, 2026
- Salary
- $143,000–$191,000 a year
Senior Systems Engineer
Job description
The Anduril Imaging team develops state-of-the-art imaging systems across both hardware and software, deployed to tackle the most significant security challenges of America and its allies. The team is heavily involved in utilizing computer vision, perception, electro-optical, infrared, and sensor data to give our war fighters and allies an advantage.
We are seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer to join our team as we transition a Ladar product from the Engineering Development Unit (EDU) phase through Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD), and ultimately into high-rate production. You will play a pivotal role in scaling our build capacity to 10s of units per month.
Job responsibilities
- Drive the EDU-to-EMD Transition: Oversee the deployment and test of our EDU builds, ensuring they are fully prepared to support field testing to demonstrate system capability and performance.
- Lead Qualification & Testing: Design and execute a comprehensive Design Verification Testing (DVT) campaign to environmentally test and qualify the system.
- Prepare for Major Milestones: Author technical documentation, define verification matrices, and lead systems-level preparation for upcoming Critical Design Reviews (CDR) and Manufacturing Readiness Reviews (MRR).
- Scale for Production: Collaborate with manufacturing and hardware teams to implement Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles.
- Optimize Test Infrastructure: Architect, design, and ruggedize manufacturing test equipment for efficiency, throughput, and reliability on the production floor.
- Automate & Integrate: Collaborate with software and firmware teams to implement robust test automation, while pushing the user interface (UI) and background software towards product-level maturity.
- Adapt or derive physics-based models of sensor system performance and derive requirements based on those models, and validate models against laboratory and real world data
- Support both laboratory-based and field-based experiments and demonstrations
Job requirements
- EO/Ladar Domain Expertise: 5+ years of hardware-centric systems engineering experience working with Electro-Optical (EO) systems, Ladar/Lidar, or high-precision pointing systems.
- Development-to-Production Experience: Direct experience transitioning complex, multidisciplinary systems from low Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) to high TRL / production-ready status.
- Testing & Environmental Qualification: Strong familiarity with DVT campaigns, environmental testing standards, and field testing operations.
- Production Scaling Mindset: Practical knowledge of Design for Manufacturing (DFM), test equipment ruggedization, and test process optimization/automation.
- Milestone Execution: Experience leading or heavily contributing to systems engineering reviews such as CDR, MRR, or PRR.
- Collaboration & Communication: Outstanding ability to communicate across multidisciplinary teams (optical, mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, and manufacturing).
- Advanced proficiency in an analytical toolchains/languages (e.g., MATLAB, Python)
- Strong laboratory skills (e.g. design of experiments)
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