Chief Engineer, EW
Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 87 days Anduril Industries's roles stay open a median of 87 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 1% of Anduril Industries's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Anduril Industries
- high 2263 stale, 67 reposted of 2,263 open
- Hiring momentum
- 3233 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-29
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About this role
As the Chief Engineer for Anduril's advanced Electronic Warfare (EW) Airborne Survivability program, you will lead a multidisciplinary engineering team in designing, testing, and deploying next-generation EW capabilities. Your role involves bridging high-level program management with technical execution, ensuring system integration across various platforms, and managing engineering risks to deliver effective solutions to military operations.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- Experience with Electronic Warfare systems utilizing Software Defined Radios
- Experience with designing, developing, and testing hardware with FPGA, ARM, x86, and GPU compute architectures
- Deep understanding of Electronic Support Measures (ESM) and Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) architecture
- Deep experience with Integration & Test (I&T) of RF based hardware systems in lab or field environments
- Experience with leading and coordinating cross-functional engineering teams
- Experience executing technical milestones internally and externally
Nice to have
- Masters or PhD degree in Electrical, Electronics, Computer Engineering, or related fields
- Experience integrating hardware onto airborne platforms
- Expertise in Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum (FHSS) and Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) signal processing
- Expertise in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) signal processing
What you get
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers
Worth weighing
- No specific information on the company's culture or team dynamics is provided.
- The role requires maintaining a high-level security clearance, which may limit some candidates.
- Some travel is required, which could impact work-life balance.
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Listed by Anduril Industries on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-29. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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