Capability Lead - Air Defense Vehicles

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Irvine, CA · AFS : Air Defense Engineering : Mission Operations

The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. The Mission Operations team is responsible for managing the delivery, sustainment, and growth of the solutions they provide to their customer partners. This Capability Lead will be the programmatic leader responsible for the delivery and sustainment of emergent vehicular counter-UAS products, and will work with engineers and customers to develop additional capabilities that meet this mission need for highly mobile solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Achieve success in customer-sponsored acceptance tests of the products within your portfolio. You are able to distill and analyze test objectives to determine requisite developmental efforts proceeding test events to ensure successful outcomes are achieved. You will lead the team of Andurillians through the operational execution of product evaluations - managing resources, priorities, and test scope.
  2. Build systems to effectively scale novel capabilities beyond their governmental qualifications and into the hands of warfighters. You will manage the top-funnel demand of the product, work with manufacturing and supply chain to ensure material readiness, and embed with account teams to coordinate delivery of procured products.
  3. You will author the processes in which Anduril sustains delivered products, through their entire lifecycle, to include customer outreach, reactive/pro-active servicing, product revisioning, and return material authorization (RMA).
  4. Build trust with Anduril teammates, vendors, partners, potential customers and users through effective communication, positive attitude, and follow-through. You are able to brief customers on emerging capabilities and represent Anduril to senior leaders. Anduril is a lean, agile, engineering first organization. You must be able to develop relationships across the company to operate effectively. You must effectively communicate risks and expectations to a diverse group of stakeholders.
  5. You will develop a deep understanding of mission requirements for emerging capabilities, including the nature of threats, operational and resource constraints, rules of engagement, and how they intersect with the end user’s experience. You must proactively communicate this understanding to Anduril’s functional engineering teams to enhance new technologies to support evolving mission needs and product no fit. You will deeply understand product development priorities and business development opportunities, and frame trade-offs to engineering and sales decision makers.

Skills

Required

  • Proven experience delivering technology to government organizations or large commercial institutions
  • Proven experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware and software products to real operating environments at various scales
  • Proven experience and aptitude in taking a product from 0 to 1, 1 to 100, and beyond
  • 6+ years work experience in a technology or automotive company or as a part of a technical implementation team focused on developing integrated hardware and software products

Nice to have

  • computer vision
  • sensor fusion
  • autonomy

What the JD emphasized

  • deliver technology to government organizations or large commercial institutions
  • leading a technical team of peers to field hardware and software products to real operating environments at various scales
  • taking a product from 0 to 1, 1 to 100, and beyond