Mission System Lead, Seabed Sentry

Anduril • Quincy, MA

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. We are seeking a Lead Mission Systems Software Engineer to join our growing Maritime team in Boston or Quincy, MA. This role involves designing and developing core decision-making and autonomy software for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). You will lead the architecture, implementation, and deployment of software that enables these systems to perceive their environment, navigate, avoid obstacles, and execute complex missions with minimal human intervention. The position requires technical leadership, hands-on software development, establishing a long-term software roadmap, and guiding the team through execution. Collaboration with program leadership and cross-functional teams is essential to ensure designs meet customer requirements and align with technical decisions. You will serve as a subject matter expert in mission systems development and integration, presenting to customers and demonstrating system performance. This role is ideal for individuals who enjoy solving complex technical challenges and owning the development of high-impact products.

Requirements

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Robotics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
• System architecture experience.
• Hands-on experience developing software for embedded and physical devices.
• Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization.
• 6+ years of professional C++ or Rust programming experience in a Linux development environment.
• Experience with NixOS.
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems.
• Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures, running under dynamic network topologies.
• Capacity to work holistically on software-enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation, and sustainment.
• Demonstrated curiosity and ability to learn outside of core discipline, and a desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact.
• Experience engaging with customers to represent the technical aspects of a product portfolio regarding missions and payloads.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical teams.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
• Experience in a leadership position within a high-performing technology organization.
• Experience with modeling and simulation of complex systems.
• Proficiency in Python, Rust, and/or Go.
• Experience in one or more of the following: high performance computing, network programming, fault tolerance, fault handling, DevSecOps.
• Experience solving complex frame transformation problems, such as target localization or multi-degree-of-freedom robotic arms.
• Experience in one or more of the following: sensor integration, tracking and estimation, motion planning, perception, localization, mapping, guidance, navigation and control, and related system performance metrics.
• Solid understanding of robotics systems, common interfaces and protocols (gRPC, TCP/IP, RS485, RS232).
• Demonstrated ability to learn and grow individually, while effectively mentoring senior team members, building team cohesion, and increasing team capability.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical leader owning software for Seabed Sentry.
• Set objectives, build cross-functional teams, and drive projects to completion using technical expertise and leadership skills.
• Manage and develop a small team (3-4 employees initially), setting priorities, delegating work, and providing coaching and mentorship.
• Drive the design and implementation of development processes for initial delivery and subsequent iteration of payloads and mission systems.
• Act as the technical owner for an entire mission system, including stakeholder and customer engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution.
• Organize integration events, scoping key deliverables and impact to the broader program.
• Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system.
• Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond current platforms, with a clear path for architecture and capability evolution.
• Generate system solutions to improve reliability, ease-of-use, and capability across various customer missions.
• Write and maintain core libraries (frame transformations, targeting and guidance, communications, etc.) for use across all Anduril robotics platforms.
• Own major feature development for Seabed Sentry and manage rollout to the fleet.
• Travel up to 15% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world, and collaborate with other teams or end-users.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees.
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensuring support in health, recovery, and future needs.

What This Job Offers

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