Principal Mission Systems Lead

Anduril Industries•Costa Mesa, CA

11h•Hybrid

About The Position

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years. ABOUT THE TEAM Anduril's Maneuver Dominance is responsible for planning and executing Anduril's product and revenue roadmap for missions. Working across product, engineering, business development, logistics, and operations, the Maneuver Dominance team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Maneuver Dominance capabilities in a challenging operational environment worldwide. As a leader in the Maneuver Dominance 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 vehicle systems for a Maneuver Dominance 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.

Requirements

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 python and matlab
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

Nice To Haves

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
8+ years of operational experience with autonomous Maneuver Dominance systems

Responsibilities

Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system for a new Maneuver Dominance 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 Maneuver Dominance 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.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
Income Protection: Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees.
Generous time off: Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December. Caregiver & Wellness Leave is available to care for family members, bond with a new baby, or address your own medical needs.
Family Planning & Parenting Support: Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carriers, along with resources to support you and your partner from planning to parenting.
Mental Health Resources: Access free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching. Additional work-life services, such as legal and financial support, are also available.
Professional Development: Annual reimbursement for professional development
Commuter Benefits: Company-funded commuter benefits based on your region.
Relocation Assistance: Available depending on role eligibility.
Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax (mega backdoor Roth) options.
Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.