Senior Airworthiness Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike

Anduril Industries

Airworthiness Engineer developing certification and conformance plans for military aircraft at Anduril Industries. Supporting aircraft certification processes to ensure compliance with DoD and FAA standards.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $146,000 - $194,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You will work as an Airworthiness Engineer to develop and author Airworthiness certification and conformance plans for developmental and production aircraft, supporting Flight Releases, Type Certification, tailored airworthiness, and FAA general use airspace integration.
You and your team will perform technical airworthiness (AW) planning, tracking and verification support within a digital environment.
Airworthiness engineering duties include guiding technical reviews.
You are expected to perform functional and process analyses, requirements allocation and definition studies.
You will ensure the logical and systematic realization of customer airworthiness certification objectives.
You will proactively support and guide all design development towards Airworthiness compliance.
You will develop, author and maintain all Airworthiness activities in a digital environment.
You are expected to develop creative solutions to unique problems.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering or aviation related engineering degree.
8+ years airworthiness engineering experience.
Experience establishing and maintaining relationships with DoD and FAA airworthiness authorities.
Experience with DoD Airworthiness Policy Directives, Instructions, and Airworthiness Bulletins
Proven experience working DoD and FAA Airworthiness processes, including MIL-HDBK-516 series documents, throughout the life cycle of a developmental aircraft to achieve successful program completion.
Experience developing and managing Airworthiness plans, tracking of Airworthiness criterions, and similar activities.
Must have experience with manned or UAS developmental Military aircraft.
Ability to develop and execute Airworthiness Certification process improvement initiatives.
Must have strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with emphasis on technical subjects.
Strong computer and technical software experience (MATLAB, JIRA, DOORS, MS Office, CATIA, 3DX)
Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k)
Paid time off
Stock options
Professional development opportunities
Flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools

airworthiness engineeringairworthiness certificationfunctional analysisprocess analysisrequirements allocationcompliance verificationprogram managementprocess improvement

Soft Skills

communication skillsinterpersonal skillsproblem-solvingteam collaboration

Certifications

U.S. Top Secret security clearance