Anduril Industries

Vehicle Systems Lead

Anduril Industries$220K — $292K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • Extensive experience as an Engineer in multiple domains or technologies
  • Proven track record as a project lead or manager across diverse engineering disciplines
  • Skilled in detailed project planning across system and product levels
  • Experience transitioning projects from prototype to production
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while maintaining organization across large teams

Responsibilities

  • Take ownership of the Vehicle System and ensure performance aligns with program requirements
  • Manage the scheduling and execution of vehicle systems across product generations
  • Oversee vehicle development budget and cost performance, striving for cost reductions
  • Provide technical leadership and ensure adherence to design principles
  • Act as the escalation point for technical decisions and issue resolution
  • Represent the vehicle system in leadership and customer meetings
  • Facilitate regular team meetings and address technical challenges with system leads
  • Drive platform-level trade studies to inform architectural updates
  • Mentor Senior and Principal engineers for leadership development

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package at little to no cost for employees
  • Support in health and recovery
  • Opportunity for growth and development
  • Highly competitive equity grants as part of total compensation
  • Access to resources that facilitate work-life balance
Full Job Description


ABOUT THE JOB

You will lead the technical development and integration of vehicle 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 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
  • Ownership of the Vehicle System, interfaces to other Systems, and overall performance against the Program and Product requirements for a new start platform
  • Schedule and execution ownership for vehicle system across product generations, including timeframe of development, prototype testing, demonstrations, transitioning from prototype designs to rate manufacturing etc.
  • Responsibility for vehicle developmental budget and cost performance, ensuring all subsystems are compliant and targeting cost reduction according to system cost plan
  • Technical leadership at the vehicle system level, including overall responsibility for technical performance, implementation and adherence to design principals and tenets, sustainment of issue resolution activities, etc.
  • Escalation path for technical decision making and/or deconfliction for the vehicle system team. Additional decision making/escalation to be done through Maritime Chief Engineer
  • Represent the vehicle system in leadership meetings, customer interfacing meetings, and wherever else appropriate
  • Lead meetings across the vehicle team at the necessary cadences such as daily standup, sprint planning, retro, monthlies, all-hands etc.
  • Interface directly with Chief Engineer and other system leads on technical challenges and issue resolution
  • Interface directly with peers across Production, Payloads, Mission Systems, Field Operations, Product Management, and Sustainment teams to align execution streams to product level schedule.
  • Drive platform level trade studies across critical systems and subsystems to inform generational architectural updates and changes to the platform.
  • Lead and mentor Senior and Principal level engineers for growth towards platform level leadership roles.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
  • Extensive professional experience working as an Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise.
  • Extensive professional experience working as a project lead or manager driving execution across diverse engineering disciplines.
  • Extensive professional experience with detailed project planning at the product or system level across diverse engineering disciplines.
  • Experience with projects, programs, or products transitioning from prototype design, prototype testing, new product introduction, and transition into production.
  • Ability to work in an extremely fast paced environment with the capability to maintain organization across a large team and effectively triage issues and blockers across the product organization.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Experience with the design, implementation and support of robotic and/or autonomous systems
  • Experience working within the defense, maritime and/or aerospace domains
  • Experience with product roadmaps and generational product developments
  • Experience and training in program management


US Salary Range

$220,000-$292,000 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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