Support Systems Lead, Seabed Sentry

Anduril Anduril · Defense · London, United Kingdom · Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike - Engineering & Operations : Systems Engineering

Lead the technical development of a holistic support system for maritime products, including production, maintenance, training, and logistics. This role involves building and managing a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with customers, and ensuring the successful deployment and sustainment of autonomous systems in a defense context.

What you'd actually do

  1. Plan, coordinate, and lead the development and sustainment of a holistic Support System (including production, launch, depot and field maintenance, training, and everything in between)
  2. Hire, develop, and grow a multidisciplinary Support System team (Technicians,Engineers, Technical Writers, Trainers etc) to provide world-class training, logistics and support.
  3. Collaborate with customer stakeholders on a comprehensive concept of employment to ensure needs are met and customer inputs are used to influence the design of other systems to align with expected methods for employment
  4. Manage a cohesive plan to support deployed assets, inclusive of identifying critical infrastructure requirements such as maintenance depots, test sites, etc.
  5. Work directly with operators to gain hands-on experience using our equipment, and assist in the scoping and design of future support infrastructure.

Skills

Required

  • Experience working in logistics, support, maintenance, or training management roles
  • Familiarity with support of fielded systems in the control of customers
  • Experience working on and in service of maritime craft, either commercial or defense focused
  • Innate understanding of the requirements to support a robotic systems at sea
  • Experienced leader with the depth and breadth of leadership capability who enables and empowers their people
  • Ability to think strategically and plan long term but also to be in the detail, act tactically when required and to simplify the complex
  • Strong bias to action and an affective decision maker who is able to operate in a fast paced environment
  • Personally resilient and self starting; ability to build from the ground up in a highly dynamic and innovative environment
  • Highly collaborative with the ability to work with both internal and external stakeholders, challenging constructively where necessary
  • Extremely high ownership; take significant pride in the quality and efficacy of your work
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a UK Security clearance

Nice to have

  • Demonstrated understanding of multi-domain unmanned and autonomous weapon system development and employment.
  • Demonstrated engineering management capability; proven technical and personnel leadership qualities.
  • Strong understanding of reliability, autonomous system architectures, and overall design approach for unmanned weapons systems.
  • Experience building and managing cross functional teams focused around a common vision.

What the JD emphasized

  • holistic support system
  • support of fielded systems
  • support of a robotic systems at sea
  • support infrastructure