Principal Mission Systems Lead

1 hour, 46 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is an American defense technology firm that specializes in developing advanced autonomous systems for integrated awareness and security across land, sea, and air, utilizing its proprietary Lattice platform to enhance intelligence, su...

Aerospace & Defense
1K-5K
Founded 2017
$2200M raised

Description

  • Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system for a new Maneuver Dominance platform.
  • Lead the technical development and integration of vehicle systems from initial concept through delivery.
  • Partner with Vehicle Software, program leadership, and third-party vendors to define interfacing requirements and maintain traceability to technical decisions.
  • Drive architecture selection and system design for robotic mission systems, including hardware, compute, storage, network, and service orchestration concerns.
  • Contribute to the roadmap for mission system integration into Maneuver Dominance platforms, including software inputs.
  • Lead teams developing software that runs on- and off-platform across multiple technologies.
  • Define and implement development processes for initial delivery and iteration of mission software, including full lifecycle testing.
  • Create and validate test and simulation fixtures that support software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
  • Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment efforts.
  • Lead and mentor multidisciplinary engineering teams, including Senior Software Engineers, and travel up to 25% to work with end users or other teams.

Requirements

  • Senior-level experience delivering a military mission system.
  • Experience developing and sustaining distributed software platform and application architectures under dynamic network topologies.
  • Experience with modeling and simulation.
  • Experience with Python and MATLAB.
  • Experience developing high-assurance, safety-critical software.
  • Experience building comprehensive unit tests and regression tests.
  • Deep understanding of autonomous weapons systems, including payload capabilities and commercial and military mission sets.
  • Experience across the product delivery lifecycle, including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.
  • Familiarity with vehicle management systems.
  • Familiarity with systems engineering concepts.
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience (preferred).
  • Experience in a leadership role within a high-performing technology organization (preferred).
  • Systems and/or application programming skills, including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and optimization (preferred).
  • Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems (preferred).
  • Ability to work across the software stack through design, implementation, operation, and sustainment (preferred).
  • Ability to act as technical owner for an entire mission system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, and evolution (preferred).
  • Ability to learn quickly while mentoring senior team members and building team cohesion (preferred).
  • 8+ years of operational experience with autonomous Maneuver Dominance systems (preferred).

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $220,000 to $292,000 USD.
  • Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage at little to no cost for U.S. roles.
  • Life and disability insurance for all employees.
  • Highly competitive PTO with a holiday hiatus in December.
  • Caregiver and Wellness Leave for family care, bonding with a new baby, or personal medical needs.
  • Mental health resources available 24/7, including therapy and life coaching, plus legal and financial support services.
  • Annual reimbursement for professional development.
  • Company-funded commuter benefits based on region.
  • Relocation assistance available depending on role eligibility.
  • Retirement savings options, including 401(k)/Roth/after-tax options for U.S. roles, pension with employer match for UK and IE roles, and superannuation for AUS roles.

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