Anduril Industries

Support System Lead, Copperhead

Anduril Industries$146K — $194K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Systems, Marine, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering, or relevant experience
  • Experience in logistics, support, maintenance, or training management for field systems
  • Hands-on experience with maritime craft, understanding support needs for robotic systems
  • Proven leadership capability, empowering team dynamics
  • Strategic thinker with tactical execution skills, adept at simplifying complexity
  • Resilient self-starter, capable of building systems in dynamic settings
  • Collaborative team player, adept in stakeholder communication
  • Ownership-focused with high standards for work quality
  • Ability to obtain a DOD Secret clearance
  • Willingness to travel 25% for customer and test site engagements.

Responsibilities

  • Plan and lead development of a holistic Support System for maritime products
  • Build and grow a multi-disciplinary Support System team for world-class service
  • Collaborate with customers to align systems design with operational needs
  • Manage infrastructure requirements for maintaining and supporting deployed systems
  • Gain hands-on experience with equipment to inform support infrastructure planning
  • Develop and implement customer training curricula for modern tech environments
  • Manage equipment support requirements, including logistics and tasking equipment
  • Oversee end-to-end vendor management to ensure timely component delivery.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package with minimal or no cost to employees
  • Support for health and recovery needs
  • Investments in employee development and well-being
  • Additional benefits detailed on the company website.
Full Job Description


ABOUT THE JOB
You will lead the technical development of a holistic support system for service, maintenance, support, and production of maritime products. As an early performer on a new Maritime product, you will be challenged to rethink the possible as you envision and implement methodology to support large fleets of autonomous systems at the speed of relevance. You will work closely with Anduril's Strategy team and strategic opportunity customers to develop this approach, to ensure 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 in programmatic level decision 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:
  • Plan, coordinate, and lead the development and sustainment of a holistic Support System (including production, launch, depot and field maintenance, training, and everything in between)
  • Hire, develop, and grow a multi-disciplinary Support System team (Technicians, Engineers, Technical Writers, Trainers etc) to provide world-class training, logistics, and support
  • Collaborate with customer stakeholders on a comprehensive concept of employment to ensure needs are met and customer inputs are used to influence the design of other systems to align with expected methods for employment
  • Manage a cohesive plan to support deployed assets, inclusive of identifying critical infrastructure requirements such as maintenance depots, test sites, etc.
  • Work directly with operators to gain hands-on experience using our equipment, and assist in the scoping and design of future support infrastructure
  • Develop a strategy for customer training and train-the-trainer curriculum, including planning approach to training in a modern tech product environment
  • Manage requirements for fielded system support equipment, including handling equipment, shipping and logistics equipment, shoreside C2 systems, host vessels, and remote tasking and monitoring equipment
  • Own critical interfaces with other system elements and work closely within the team to deliver a tightly integrated end-to-end system capability
  • Own the end-to-end vendor management process, from flowing down technical requirements to ensuring on-time delivery of critical components to meet program deadlines.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Marine Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering, or proven experience in a relevant field
  • Experience working in logistics, support, maintenance, or training management roles and familiarity with support of fielded systems in the control of customers
  • Experience working on and in service of maritime craft, either commercial or defense focused, and an innate understanding of the requirements to support a robotic systems at sea
  • Be an experienced leader with the depth and breadth of leadership capability who enables and empowers their people
  • Be able to think strategically and plan long term but also to be in the detail, act tactically when required and to simplify the complex. Strong bias to action and an affective decision maker who is able to operate in a fast paced environment
  • Be personally resilient and self-starting; ability to build from the ground up in a highly dynamic and innovative environment
  • Be highly collaborative with the ability to work with both internal and external stakeholders, challenging constructively where necessary
  • Exercise extremely high ownership; take significant pride in the quality and efficacy of your work
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a DOD Secret clearance
  • Travel 25% to Customer and Test Sites
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Demonstrated understanding of multi-domain unmanned and autonomous weapon system development and employment
  • Demonstrated engineering management capability; proven technical and personnel leadership qualities
  • Strong understanding of reliability, autonomous system architectures, and overall design approach for unmanned weapons systems
  • Experience building and managing cross-functional teams focused around a common vision


US Salary Range

$146,000-$194,000 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
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2017

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