Staff Modeling, Simulation and Analysis Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike
Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · USD 191,000-292,000 · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)
- Salary
- USD 191,000-292,000 · Base salary
About the role
- Anduril Industries is seeking a Staff Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (MSA) Engineer to join the Air Dominance & Strike organization's Flight Engineering department.
- The role is pivotal in driving the design, development, testing, and implementation of cutting-edge flight system technologies for aerospace systems.
- You will develop, implement, and maintain sufficient fidelity virtual representations of vehicles and own the end-to-end configuration of SITL, HITL, and PITL for test vehicles.
Responsibilities
- Work on challenging problems in a fast-paced environment from across our portfolio of programs and products
- Develop simulation solutions for Guidance, Navigation and Control algorithm development
- Build Software-In-The-Loop (SITL) solutions
- Build Hardware-In-The-Loop (HITL) solutions
- Build Pilot-In-The-Loop (PITL) solutions
- Develop customer product training solutions
- Perform Monte-Carlo simulation analysis
- Create simulation and test data analysis tools and processes
- Work with multi-disciplinary subject matter experts to understand and adequately model pertinent sub-system, system and system of system dynamics
- Own the end-to-end configuration of our SITL, HITL, and PITL for our test vehicles in support of safe and efficient flight tests
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, or related technical discipline
- Experience with aerospace/aeronautical systems (including rotorcraft/VTOL) and/or Subsea vehicles
- Experience in flight dynamics/platform physics and control
- Proficiency with C/C++
- Advanced proficiency with scientific computing systems (Mathworks products, scientific Python)
- Flight test data processing/sim correlation experience
- Experience with developing sub-system and system level models
- Experience with model development to support Guidance, Navigation and Control algorithm development
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance
Preferred qualifications
- 12 or more years of related experience
- Advanced proficiency with C/C++
- Flight test support experience
- Experience with SITL and HITL simulation infrastructure design, development and deployment for complex systems
- Experience with developing emulated/simulation interfaces for on-board avionics
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees supporting health, recovery, and whatever comes next
Skills
- C/C++
- MATLAB
- Simulink
- Python
- Numpy
- Scipy
- Flight Dynamics
- Guidance, Navigation And Control
- SITL
- HITL
- PITL
- Monte-Carlo Simulation
