Principal Engineer, cUAS Lead, Omen

<div class="content-intro"><p>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. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.</p></div><h3>ABOUT THE TEAM</h3> <p>The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. Omen is Anduril’s hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle (AAV) that packs the endurance, payload, and mission flexibility of much larger airplanes into a novel runway-independent Group 3 platform. Omen can operate from ship decks, beaches, or remote island clearings, providing true runway independence and freedom of maneuver across defense and civilian domains. Omen is the first tail-sitter aircraft with a mass-production contract, with an order of 50 systems representing a decisive investment that anchors production and accelerates the development of future systems.</p> <h3><strong>ABOUT THE JOB</strong></h3> <p>Small drones are hard to hit. Hitting them from a moving aircraft is harder. We need a Principal Engineer to own Omen’s airborne counter-UAS effector payload end to end, and to build the team around it.</p> <h3><strong>WHAT YOU'LL DO</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Own the counter-UAS effector payload end to end, from first prototype to qualified production hardware.</li> <li>Design the effector and firing system. Mounting structure, recoil and impulse management, feed and cycling, safe and arm interlocks.</li> <li>Own the steering hardware. Size the actuators, gearing, and drives, and design the isolation that protects the airframe from firing loads and the effector from rotor wash.</li> <li>Hold the pointing error budget and know where every part of it goes.</li> <li>Select and evaluate the sensors that range and locate the target. Bench and flight characterization for range accuracy, latency, and track quality against small targets in clutter.</li> <li>Build and lead the team. Hire across mechanical, electrical, firmware, and test, set the technical bar, and establish how the team works.</li> <li>Set the payload roadmap, balancing near-term demonstrations against the architecture that has to carry into production.</li> <li>Own payload interface control with the vehicle and mission system teams. Mounting and alignment, power and signal definitions, harnessing, time sync.</li> <li>Plan and run ground and flight test campaigns, including live range events, and lead the root-cause work when results do not match prediction.</li> <li>Take it to production. Design for manufacturability, tolerance and reliability analysis, supplier selection, first article, acceptance test.</li> <li>Work safety and compliance on safe and arm architecture, range safety, and export control.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS</strong></h3> <ul> <li>10+ years designing electromechanical hardware, including at least one product you carried from concept to production</li> <li>Strong engineering background, ideally in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Aerospace, or Electrical Engineering</li> <li>Experience leading multidisciplinary teams, including hiring</li>