Head of Digital, Shipbuilding

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Anduril is seeking a Head of Digital for Shipbuilding, based in Costa Mesa, California. The role leads the design, development, and implementation of digital infrastructure that enables programmatic, engineering, supply chain, and shipbuilding qualification workflows across the Maritime organization. The Head of Digital will collaborate with Anduril Corporate Technology to evolve a unified digital infrastructure strategy and oversee resourcing, program management, and execution for digital infrastructure contracts and contract line items across the Maritime Heavy Metal organization.

The role maintains relationships with partners participating in the digital thread, balances partner and Anduril technologies, and drives governance so the Shipbuilding program’s prime position is supported by a digital core. The successful candidate will ensure each Maritime program has the information technology needed to execute, manage a team implementing the digital vision, and collaborate with teams including Classified IT, Business Systems, Information Security, and Physical Security. The position requires experience supporting complex portfolios of programs with distinct milestone schedules and digital infrastructure spanning security domains and engineering disciplines.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience leading cross-disciplinary software engineering teams executing across many disparate lines of effort in highly regulated industries.
• Demonstrated experience in a modern, scaled manufacturing environment and familiarity with production system software such as PLM, ERP, and MES.
• Demonstrated experience automating complex engineering workflows and implementing robust change management and observability infrastructure.
• Strong ability to synthesize customer objectives into engineering outcomes.
• Ability to work in a functional matrix organization.
• Designed, built, and delivered experience.
• Willingness to travel when necessary.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Proven experience building and maintaining complex digital infrastructure across multiple security domains and supporting multiple hardware and software engineering disciplines.
• History of successfully supporting complex portfolios of programs, each with its own milestone schedule.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting digital infrastructure and proposal development for the United States Navy or Department of Defense.

Responsibilities

• Specify the digital infrastructure required to execute the Shipbuilding program and drive the digital thread for all Maritime programs.
• Manage the development, delivery, maintenance, and operations of digital infrastructure supporting Maritime programs.
• Define a digital infrastructure vision and supporting roadmap that creates a competitive advantage for Maritime operations.
• Ensure outgoing Maritime proposals accurately articulate the digital infrastructure strategy, capability, and opportunity.
• Manage digital efforts on current and future Programs of Record.
• Oversee resourcing, program management, and execution for digital infrastructure contracts and contract line items across the Maritime Heavy Metal organization.
• Maintain relationships with key partners involved in the digital thread, balance partner technologies with Anduril technologies, and drive governance.
• Directly manage a team implementing the digital infrastructure vision and collaborate with Classified IT, Business Systems, Information Security, and Physical Security.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, described as comprehensive and competitive and available at little to no cost to employees. The posting does not specify individual benefit types.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior