Senior Discovery Engineer (Modeling & Simulation)

Boston · Waltham · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · Washington, DC (DC-01) · USD 191,000-253,000 · 8+ years experience · Posted Sep 30, 2026

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Experience: 8+ years experience
Location: Boston · Waltham · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · Washington, DC (DC-01)
Salary: USD 191,000-253,000 · Base salary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Discovery Engineer (Modeling & Simulation) to join the Discovery team for hard, unproven concepts across space, missiles, air, sensors, autonomy, and cyber.
This is a hands-on technical role on both internally and externally funded programs within Anduril's Discovery Business Line on operationally relevant timelines.
As a Discovery Engineer, you will pick up unproven concepts, learn the domain, build analysis or prototypes, and drive toward validated answers.

Own new concepts from first idea through analysis, prototype, and test, and drive them to a validated answer.
Learn new domains fast enough to do real work in them: read the references, build the model, check it against known results, then extend it.
Build or adapt the models, simulations, and test setups the question needs, using existing tools where they fit and building where they do not.
Pressure-test your own and others' work: hunt failure modes, surface hidden assumptions, and stress trade studies before decisions are locked in.
Use AI tools as a force multiplier for research, code, and analysis, and know when their output has to be checked against a reference.
Work shoulder to shoulder with Hardware, Software, GNC, and the other teams at Anduril, and translate results into decisions that change the design.
Communicate results to engineers, leadership, and customers, including strong visual presentation of complex data.

Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
Demonstrated experience working in more than one technical area.
Designed, built, tested, or fielded something real, in any field.
Proficiency in at least one physics-math scripting environment (Python with numpy/scipy, MATLAB/Simulink, Julia, or similar).
Strong written, verbal, and visual communication.

8+ years in a relevant science/engineering field
Math, physics, or engineering degree, or similar
Proficiency with AI tools (coding assistants, agents, model-driven research) in day-to-day engineering work, and judgment about when to trust their output
Experience in several of: space systems, missiles and missile defense, air vehicles, GNC, sensors and sensor fusion, radar, EW, acoustics, autonomy, or similar
Familiarity with domain analysis tools as relevant (STK/Astrogator, AFSIM, HFSS, Fluent, or similar)

Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers
Top-tier benefits for full-time employees supporting health, recovery, and whatever comes next