Anduril Industries

Mission Systems Lead

Anduril Industries$292K — $386K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Senior role experience in military mission system delivery
  • Development and sustainment expertise of distributed software platforms
  • Proficiency in modeling and simulation techniques
  • Background in high assurance safety-critical software
  • Experience in comprehensive unit testing and regression analysis
  • Deep knowledge of autonomous weapons systems and their mission sets
  • Familiarity with vehicle management systems and system engineering concepts
  • Eligibility for an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Responsibilities

  • Own customer success through mission system design and delivery
  • Collaborate with the Vehicle Software team on interfacing requirements
  • Drive architecture selection for robotic mission systems
  • Contribute to company-wide mission system integration roadmap
  • Lead interdisciplinary teams in software development
  • Implement development processes for software delivery and iteration
  • Create test and simulation fixtures for in-loop testing
  • Support vehicle manufacturing and site deployments

Benefits

  • Comprehensive and competitive benefits package at minimal cost
  • Support for health and recovery needs
  • Investments in employee welfare for future challenges
  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
Full Job Description
ABOUT THE TEAM

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.
ABOUT THE JOB

You will lead the technical development and integration of mission systems for a 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 be key in making sure the right design, analysis, and test steps are 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 a new maritime platform.
  • Partner with the Vehicle Software team that is responsible for core sensor, actuator, and vehicle system 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 maritime 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 25% 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
  • Experience with development of comprehensive unit test and regression
  • 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
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security 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 autonomous maritime systems


US Salary Range

$292,000-$386,000 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:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

About Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that develops advanced systems for the military. The company was founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, Trae Stephens, and Matt Grimm, and has since grown to become a major player in the defense industry. Anduril's products include autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and other advanced technologies that are designed to enhance military capabilities. The company has received significant funding from investors and has partnerships with several major defense contractors. Anduril is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Learn more about Anduril Industries
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200 employees
Industry
Founded
2017

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