The RF Payload Engineer will be responsible for ensuring that all technical objectives are met while adhering to contractual requirements. This role will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams, customers, platforms, and coordinating with stakeholders to deliver innovative payload solutions that meet customer needs.

Key responsibilities include:

• Evaluating and validating RF systems to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
• Seamlessly integrating platforms to enhance overall system functionality and efficiency.
• Defining and specifying essential RF components to support system requirements.
• Organizing and delivering compelling presentations to stakeholders, showcasing test results and insights.
• Executing practical testing in real-world environments to validate system performance under actual conditions.
• Conducting thorough analyses to assess electromagnetic interference and compatibility with co-located systems.
• Performing Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) and Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) testing to ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Executing comprehensive field tests to verify system functionality and performance in operational scenarios.
• Developing and implementing a robust verification and validation plan for end-to-end system assurance.

Required qualifications include:

• 5+ years of experience in RF payload integrations or a related field, preferably in aerospace or defense industries.
• Electrical Engineering with emphasis in electromagnetic, RF, and antenna theory with Test Experience.
• Basic understanding of Aerodynamics, Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), Control Actuation Servos, and how those disciplines relate to overall system performance.
• Experience with data analysis, rapid prototyping, and early-stage customer deployment.
• Hands-on testing and validation of RF systems.
• Ability to engage technically with mechanical, electrical, firmware, sensors, and software leads.
• High ownership, mission-oriented mentality.
• Extremely organized and detail-oriented, with strong verbal & written communication skills.
• A sincere commitment to a positive, inclusive, and collaborative culture.
• Ability to travel as required for test planning and execution about 50% of time.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Real-world operational experience with small UAS systems in a military context desired.
• Knowledge of regulatory standards and compliance requirements in the aerospace industry.
• Experience with project management tools and methodologies.

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The ability to leverage your intuition and prior experience in programmatic level decision will play a key component in making sure the right design/analysis/and test steps are being completed to ensure success without simply completing steps for the sake of the process that don’t add value. The ideal candidate will leverage their experience executing and successfully completing prior highly optimized multi-disciplinary projects.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the customer to develop or evolve a large autonomous air vehicle. This will require close coordination with Anduril Growth, Export compliance, technical departments, US and Foreign Suppliers and US and Foreign government subject matter experts and senior leaders.
• The intent is to have a strong technical chief engineer who can become engaged in the design process, gain a deep understanding of the aircraft, and leveraging understanding of export regulations, identify technical development roadmaps including: scope, cost and schedule required to prototype, test, and manufacture exportable air vehicle.
• Lead technical and programmatic execution of new and existing air vehicle systems design, fabrication, test, productization and sustainment.
• Own the technical and programmatic success of your programs, establish technical and programmatic vision assemble teams of internal and external subject matter experts, and communicate that vision to them.
• Candidate will begin with a high level of individual contributor work to initiate a program. Success will result in potential production capability. This will require building a technical and programmatic team around business opportunities.
• Set up trades to enable the exploration of early conceptual designs while working closely with technical SME’s and Business Development teams to find the right solution to current and future gaps in the sovereign capability to ensure the warfighter has the best solution for current and future conflicts.
• Manage the detailed design of the system and subsystems including requirements development, sub-system trades and optimization, risk management etc. to ensure the appropriate consideration of design key performance parameters, schedule, costs and risks.
• Coordinate the fabrication of prototype and low-rate production articles and subsystem/system level test efforts.
• Develop budgetary estimates and schedules working with functional engineering teams
• Work with suppliers and vendors to incorporate relevant capabilities onto the air vehicle.

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We're looking for engineers with a strong mix of hardware and software experience,people who can move fluidly from system architecture to real-time troubleshooting.

Ideal candidates have hands-on experience taking complex hardware–software systems from 0→1, understanding what truly matters to end users, and delivering reliable capabilities into real-world field use.

In this role, you will be an extreme owner,leading the specification, design, integration, flight testing, and validation of mission and avionics systems that expand the capabilities of our aircraft.

You'll work closely with electrical, mechanical, software, and flight test teams in both the lab and the field, owning the full product lifecycle of payload systems from concept through to deployment.

Help us save lives as we strive to deliver the most highly reliable aerospace hardware in the industry.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, integrate, and validate avionics and mission sensors and payloads for V-BAT ,from concept through production & deployment

• Work directly with operators, mission SMEs, and internal stakeholders to understand user needs and prioritize system features and capabilities.

• Drive 0→1 development: take loosely defined mission problems, propose solutions, prototype quickly, iterate with flight test data, and mature systems into production-ready capabilities.

• Lead cross functional development: mechanical & electrical design, firmware/embedded interfaces, data paths, networking, and onboard software integration.

• Debug and root-cause complex hardware, software, and integration failures throughout development and flight operations.

• Lead hands-on bring-up, lab testing, HIL testing, and flight test preparation.

• Support flight operations with real-time troubleshooting, anomaly resolution, and post-mission data analysis.

• Use Python, MATLAB, or similar tools to analyze logs, automate tests, and drive informed design decisions.

• Collaborate with Mechanical, Electrical, Software, Flight Test, and Manufacturing to deliver reliable and maintainable avionics systems.

• Drive continuous design improvement to increase reliability, robustness, and mission performance.

Requirements:

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or related STEM field.

• 3+ years engineering experience with electrical system design, integration, testing, debug, and repair

• Hands-on experience with test equipment, schematics, harness/wiring diagrams, and HW/SW debugging.

• Experience working on multidisciplinary hardware development projects, which can be from an internship, job, club, team, personal project, etc…

• Demonstrated history of showing ownership of project outcomes and delivering exceptional results.

• Record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others.

Preferences:

• Experience integrating avionics, sensors, radios, mission payloads, or flight computing systems.

• Experience with flight test, field testing, or hardware-in-the-loop development.

• Experience with Python or any scripting language.

• Active Secret Security Clearance (or ability to obtain one if needed)

• Demonstrated adaptability, agility, and the ability to innovate under pressure to meet dynamic project demands and drive successful outcomes.

• Demonstrated experience taking a hardware + software product or feature from concept (0) to deployed system (1).

Salary:

$115,527 - $173,291 a year

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