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Job Summary:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on enhancing military capabilities through advanced technology. The Mission Systems Lead will oversee the technical development and integration of vehicle systems for maritime products, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and strategic goals.
Responsibilities:
• Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system for a new maritime 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 maritime 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.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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 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
Preferred:
• 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
• 5+ years of operational experience with autonomous maritime systems
Company:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that specializes in developing advanced autonomous systems to enhance national security. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Costa Mesa, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.