Mission Systems Lead

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Heavy Metal - Engineering & Operations : Software Engineering

Lead the technical development and integration of mission systems for a maritime product, from concept through delivery, focusing on robotic mission systems, hardware selection, compute, storage, and network architecture. This role involves driving architecture, leading teams, and ensuring customer success in a defense technology context.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system for a new maritime platform.
  2. 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 .
  3. 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.
  4. Contribute to the design and development of a company-wide roadmap for mission system integration into maritime platforms, including necessary software inputs.
  5. Lead teams that develop software that runs on- and off- platform, using a variety of technologies.

Skills

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

Nice to have

  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system
  • Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software
  • Deep understanding of autonomous weapons systems, inclusive of payload capabilities and both commercial and military mission sets

Other signals

  • AI-powered operating system
  • advanced autonomy
  • AI
  • computer vision
  • sensor fusion
  • leading technical development and integration of mission systems
  • robotic mission systems
  • software that runs on- and off- platform
  • autonomous weapons systems