Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
WHO WE ARE:
Anduril's Maritime Division is responsible for planning and executing Anduril's product and revenue roadmap for maritime missions. Working across product, engineering, business development, logistics, and operations, the Maritime team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril maritime capabilities in a challenging operational environment worldwide. As a leader in the Maritime Division, you must be a technical leader with the expertise to evaluate, qualify, manage, and advocate for an increasing number of sophisticated parallel pursuits. This role is crucial in ensuring that each initiative aligns with the company's strategic direction and receives the appropriate resourcing, balancing innovation with practical execution to drive the business line's success.
You will lead the technical development and integration of mission systems for a surface maritime product, from initial concept through delivery. You will work closely with program leadership, teams from other Anduril products, and third party system vendors to develop these designs so that requirements are tied to customer inputs and there is traceability to program office technical decisions.
Your spectrum of support will be diverse in nature and require you to leverage your technical expertise as well as leadership skills to set objectives, build cross-functional teams, and rapidly drive to completion. The ability to leverage your intuition and prior experience will play a key component in making sure the right design/analysis/ and test steps are being completed to ensure success. The ideal candidate will leverage their experience executing and successfully completing prior highly optimized multi-disciplinary projects.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
- Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system for surface maritime systems
- Partner with the Vehicle Software team that is responsible for core sensor and actuator functionality. Collaborate on interfacing requirements between Vehicle Management System and Mission System stacks.
- Drive architecture selection and design for robotic mission systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture. Service orchestration and other software platform concerns that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
- Contribute to the design and development of a company-wide roadmap for mission system integration into surface platforms, including necessary software inputs
- Lead teams that develop software that runs on- and off- platform, using a variety of technologies
- Drive the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of mission software, including full lifecycle testing
- Drive the creation of test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software- and hardware-in-the-loop
- Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment
- Lead teams of multi-disciplinary engineers, including as a mentor for Senior Software Engineers from differing backgrounds
- Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time
- Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system
- Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures, running under dynamic network topologies
- Experience with modeling and simulation
- Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software
- Deep understanding of autonomous weapons systems, inclusive of payload capabilities and both commercial and military mission sets
- Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment
- Familiarity with vehicle management systems
- Familiarity with System Engineering concepts
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
- Experience in a leadership position within a high performing technology organization
- Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency and optimization
- Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
- Capacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment
- Capacity to act as the technical owner for an entire mission system, including stakeholder and customer engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
- Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring senior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
- 5+ years of operational experience with crewed or uncrewed surface vessels
US Salary Range
$142,000—$213,000 USD
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
- Platinum Healthcare Benefits: For U.S. roles, we offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
- For UK roles, Private Medical Insurance (PMI): Anduril will cover the full cost of the insurance premium for an employee and dependents.
- For AUS roles, Private health plan through Bupa: Coverage is fully subsidized by Anduril.
- Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Anduril, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
- Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a holiday hiatus in December, and highly competitive PTO plans.
- 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave to care for a family member, bond with your baby, or tend to your own medical condition.
- Family Planning & Parenting Support: Fertility (eg, IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carrier coverage with additional benefits and resources to provide support from planning to parenting.
- Mental Health Resources: We provide free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy, life coaching, and more. Additional work-life services, such as free legal and financial support, available to you as well.
- A professional development stipend is available to all Andurilians.
- Daily Meals and Provisions: For many of our offices this means breakfast, lunch and fully stocked micro-kitchens.
- Company-funded commuter benefits available based on your region.
- Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility).
- 401(k) retirement savings plan - both a traditional and Roth 401(k). (US roles only)
The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.
Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Anduril team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals, who together are disrupting industry norms by creating new paths towards the future of defense technology. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the CA Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. We actively encourage members of recognized minorities, women, Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply, and we work to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all applicants throughout the interview process. If you are someone passionate about working on problems that have a real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you!
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