Senior 6-DOF Simulation Engineer

About the role

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.

Anduril’s Tactical Reconnaissance and Strike Division (TRS) is responsible for design and development of Anduril’s fleet of small warfighting and surveillance drones deployed around the world, including Ghost, Anvil, Altius, and Bolt. The guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) team within TRS performs implementation, analysis, test, and validation, modeling & simulation, for GNC software solutions supporting our autonomous drone fleet. Applications include attitude and position control, waypoint and terminal guidance engagements, and navigating contested environments including communication and GPS denied environments.

This role will be responsible for building and maintaining the high fidelity 6 Degree of Freedom simulation software utilized with TRS GNC for GNC algorithm development, test, and validation.

Responsibilities

• Develop simulation solutions for 6DOF and Guidance, Navigation and Control algorithm development
• Develop and maintain Software-In-The-Loop (SITL) and Hardware-In-The-Loop (HITL) tests
• Work closely with the flight software team to define requirements and integrate GNC software
• Characterization work (aero, optics, actuators, IMUs, etc) for both fixed wing and rotorcraft
• Review test data captured from the flight control system, subsystems, and other test instrumentation to verify vehicle performance, evaluate GNC algorithm/controller behavior, or debug incident
• Develop models required to support functional evaluation of GNC software

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering or a related field with exceptional skills in the field of dynamic systems and control
• 8 years professional experience in a Modeling & Simulation for supporting airborne platforms
• Demonstrated proficiency in C++, Matlab, Simulink, Simulink Embedded Coder, and Python
• Extensive experience in modeling and simulation of linear/nonlinear dynamic systems
• Experience in Monte-Carlo simulations and flight test data analysis tools and processes
• Extensive experience in the mathematical modeling and simulation of aerodynamics, rotorcraft dynamics, sensors and actuators
• Work with multi-disciplinary subject matter experts to understand and adequately model pertinent sub-system, system and system of system dynamics
• A passion for defending the Unites States of America and its allies
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering, or a related field with a focus on dynamic systems and control
• Experience with Flight test data processing/sim correlation experience
• Experience with integrating and debugging navigation systems for aerial platforms
• Experience with guidance algorithm development

Pay

U.S. Salary Range: $132,000—$198,000 USD

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers and considered part of Anduril's total compensation package
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees