Vehicle System Lead, Seabed Sentry

Anduril • Quincy, MA

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About The Position

The Vehicle System Lead will own the Seabed Sentry product, a persistent, autonomous seabed sensing node designed for undersea surveillance and reconnaissance. This hands-on technical leadership role leads a cross-functional team of mechanical, electrical, systems, and software engineers through the full product lifecycle, from design and development through integration, testing, and fielding. The lead makes architecture decisions, drives trade studies, resolves cross-discipline integration issues, and represents the system in design reviews, test events, and customer demonstrations. The role requires both system-level perspective and the ability to engage in technical detail with engineering leads.

Requirements

• BS or MS in systems engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, robotics, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in systems engineering or technical leadership on complex electromechanical products.
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering teams through design, integration, and testing.
• Background in robotics, autonomous systems, or maritime/undersea platforms.
• Strong understanding of system-level tradeoffs across mechanical, electrical, software, and communications domains.
• Experience with system requirements development, interface management, and verification and validation.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, iterative development environment involving building and testing hardware.
• Experience with field testing, deployment operations, or operational demonstrations.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally to support test events and demonstrations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), undersea sensors, or seabed systems.
• Background in acoustic systems, subsea communications, or oceanographic instrumentation.
• Experience with defense acquisition, ITAR, and export-controlled programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team through the design, development, and production of Seabed Sentry.
• Own the system architecture and drive technical decisions across structure, power, communications, compute, sensors, and autonomy subsystems.
• Manage system-level integration and testing to ensure subsystems combine into a working product.
• Define and maintain system requirements, interface definitions, and verification plans.
• Drive trade studies across performance, cost, schedule, and manufacturability.
• Coordinate with program management on schedules, milestones, and resource planning.
• Represent the system in design reviews, including PDR, CDR, and TRR, as well as test readiness events and customer demonstrations.
• Work with field operations and deployment teams to ensure operational viability.
• Support the design of launch, recovery, and handling systems as needed.
• Identify and retire technical risks early through prototyping, analysis, and testing.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including a comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

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