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This role pays less than
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$164,648–$243,812
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$194k
versus about
$204k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that builds advanced hardware and software systems for national security, including autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and the Lattice AI command platform.
Anduril Industries currently has
901 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$166,000–$220,000
across 858 roles with salary data.
The Discovery Engineer joins the Discovery team to tackle unproven concepts across space, missiles, air, sensors, autonomy, and cyber. This role involves owning new concepts from initial ideas through analysis, prototyping, and testing to reach validated answers. You will build models, simulations, and test setups, pressure-testing assumptions to identify failure modes. The work requires reasoning from first principles to solve hard technical problems in defense technology. Required skills include proficiency in physics-math scripting environments like Python with numpy/scipy, MATLAB/Simulink, or Julia, along with experience in at least one technical area. Preferred qualifications include experience with AI tools, GNC, radar, or sensor fusion, and familiarity with domain analysis tools like STK/Astrogator or HFSS. You must maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.