Senior Airworthiness Engineer, Advanced Effects

Anduril Industries

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $146,000–$194,000 / yr
Posted: 22 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday

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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Airworthiness Engineer, Advanced Effects

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As a Senior Airworthiness Engineer - Advanced Effects on the Test and Evaluation team, you will develop and author airworthiness certification and conformance plans for developmental and production aircraft stores. You will manage technical airworthiness planning, tracking, and verification within a digital environment while negotiating bases of certification and means of compliance. Your role involves performing functional and process analyses, requirements allocation studies, and guiding technical reviews across the total system design and test processes. You will ensure the realization of customer airworthiness objectives for flight releases and platform integrations. Key skills include experience with DoW Airworthiness Policy Directives, FAA processes, and store integration on DoW platforms. You will utilize digital tools to perform statistical analysis and manage requirements linked to program schedules. This role addresses the technical challenge of ensuring aircraft systems meet rigorous military and federal safety standards.

Skills

Airworthiness Engineering Systems Engineering Aerospace Engineering UAS MIL-HDBK-516 DoW Airworthiness Policy Statistical Analysis Flight Test Technical Review Documentation

What you'll do

Develop and author airworthiness certification and conformance plans for developmental and production aircraft stores.
Perform technical airworthiness planning, tracking, and verification within a digital environment.
Negotiate airworthiness bases of certification and means of compliance with internal teams and customer partners.
Conduct functional and process analyses to translate customer requirements into specific engineering criteria.
Guide technical reviews across various engineering disciplines throughout the design, development, and test processes.
Manage the lifecycle of airworthiness plans by tailoring traditional processes to meet evolving program needs.
Secure Military Flight Releases (MFR) and other specific customer airworthiness approvals through proactive guidance.
Maintain digital records for airworthiness activities linked to system requirements, schedules, and risk assessments.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or an aviation-related engineering field (or equivalent experience).
8+ years of airworthiness engineering experience.
Experience establishing and maintaining relationships with DoW and FAA airworthiness authorities.
Experience with DoW Airworthiness Policy Directives, Instructions, and Airworthiness Bulletins.
Experience with FAA Airworthiness processes for developmental aircraft systems.
Experience developing and managing Airworthiness plans and tracking criteria.
Experience with store integration on DoW platforms.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret-Level security clearance.
Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or aviation related technical discipline (preferred).
15+ years flight airworthiness engineering experience (preferred).
Experience with new small UAS and missile system airworthiness authorizations (preferred).
Previous role as Airworthiness Engineering Lead or Airworthiness Engineer (preferred).
Experience on a team that executed new store integration activities (preferred).
Experience working with the Department of War (DoW) as a contractor (preferred).

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