Principal Technical Lead, AI Robotics

3 hours, 31 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

  • Define and own the system architecture for autonomous robotic platforms, including locomotion, manipulation, perception, teleoperation, and whole-body control.
  • Lead a team of 8-10 engineers across reinforcement learning, imitation learning, perception, simulation, hardware, and robotics.
  • Set technical direction for sim-to-real transfer, policy architecture, and whole-body control integration.
  • Drive milestone execution on an aggressive 6-month delivery timeline.
  • Make build-versus-buy decisions for hardware platforms, simulation tools, and machine learning frameworks.
  • Represent the technical program to leadership, mission partners, and external stakeholders.
  • Personally contribute to the most critical technical challenges and make consequential technical decisions daily.
  • Write code and review designs as a hands-on technical leader.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in robotics, including at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.
  • Deep expertise in at least one of the following: reinforcement learning, robot manipulation, legged locomotion, or whole-body control.
  • Track record of shipping robotic systems that operate in the real world.
  • Strong software engineering skills in Python and C++.
  • Experience leading and growing technical teams of 5+ engineers.
  • Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
  • Experience with legged or multi-limbed robotic platforms, preferred.
  • Experience with defense or national security applications, preferred.
  • Publications in top robotics or machine learning venues, preferred.
  • Prior startup or defense technology experience, preferred.
  • Active U.S. TS/SCI security clearance, preferred.

Benefits

  • US salary range of $254,000 to $444,000 USD.
  • Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees.
  • Comprehensive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

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