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$191k
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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
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Listed pay typically runs
$166,000–$220,000
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The Senior 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 work to identify failure modes and hidden assumptions. The position requires proficiency in physics-math scripting environments like Python with numpy/scipy, MATLAB/Simulink, or Julia, along with experience using AI tools for research and coding. You will collaborate with Hardware, Software, and GNC teams to translate results into design decisions. The work focuses on solving hard technical problems by reasoning from first principles to validate or discard concepts within the defense technology domain.