- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- AtlantaGeorgiaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Aug 18, 2026
- Salary
- $126,000–$167,000 a year
Full-time
Systems Engineer, Launched Effects
Job description
Anduril’s Tactical Recon & Strike (TRS) is a division with two missions: 1) build highly capable autonomous drones, and 2) build solid rocket motors at scale. We transform products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt, and Altius from early concepts into fully operational capabilities by partnering closely with specialist engineering, operations, and production teams. Through our Anduril Rocket Motor Systems (RMS) team, we design and manufacture solid rocket motors using advanced materials, proprietary formulations, and high-volume production methods—delivering safe, reliable propulsion systems that support a wide range of mission requirements.
As a Systems Engineer at Anduril, you will be a pivotal…
Job responsibilities
- Drive systems thinking, processes, and capabilities for core Anduril Products including Altius, Anvil, Bolt and Ghost.
- Partner with product leads to scope, staff, and deliver capabilities to achieve company milestones working directly with the Business Lines to understand product requirements and deliverables.
- Partner with functional engineering teams to drive architectural design for safety, reliability, usability, modularity, upgradability, maintainability, and diagnosability into systems, subsystems, and interfaces.
- Drive system & subsystem requirements with functional engineering teams, defining risk reduction and verification & validation strategies for system of systems as well as subsystem assemblies.
- Execute and manage System Hazard Analyses (SHAs) and subsystem Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FME(C)As) to drive safety and reliability centric requirements
- Coordinate and execute test events involving various levels of system integration from in-lab software simulations to flight test.
- Interpret & apply key industry & defense standard requirements for safety and interoperability, e.g. STANAG, MIL-STD-882, MIL-STD-464, MIL-STD-331, MIL-STD-1901A, JOTPs, etc.
- Demonstrate strong ownership, acting as a trusted technical partner to functional engineers and leaders across the organization.
Job requirements
- Degree in Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field
- 5+ years experience in defense or safety-critical industry, particularly with safety-critical development standards, reliability and safety fault/hazard analysis, and requirements-driven verification and validation…
- Demonstrated proficiency in the application of engineering standards into engineering processes
- Proven ability to be a self-starter and to own task & risks from identification through closure
- Experience writing verifiable system-level, subsystem level, and software/hardware/component-level requirements
- Experience conducting safety & reliability analyses such as PHAs, SHAs, FME(C)As, or FTAs
- Experience and proficiency with systems and Python
- Familiarity with modern software development practices and designs, unit testing, integration test, and release processes