Vehicle Systems Lead

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

Lead the technical development and integration of vehicle systems for a maritime product, from concept through delivery, for a defense technology company. This role involves technical leadership, cross-functional team management, and driving projects through prototype, testing, and production.

What you'd actually do

  1. Ownership of the Vehicle System, interfaces to other Systems, and overall performance against the Program and Product requirements for a new start platform
  2. Schedule and execution ownership for vehicle system across product generations, including timeframe of development, prototype testing, demonstrations, transitioning from prototype designs to rate manufacturing etc.
  3. Responsibility for vehicle developmental budget and cost performance, ensuring all subsystems are compliant and targeting cost reduction according to system cost plan
  4. Technical leadership at the vehicle system level, including overall responsibility for technical performance, implementation and adherence to design principals and tenets, sustainment of issue resolution activities, etc.
  5. Escalation path for technical decision making and/or deconfliction for the vehicle system team. Additional decision making/escalation to be done through Maritime Chief Engineer

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
  • Extensive professional experience working as an Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise.
  • Extensive professional experience working as a project lead or manager driving execution across diverse engineering disciplines.
  • Extensive professional experience with detailed project planning at the product or system level across diverse engineering disciplines.
  • Experience with projects, programs, or products transitioning from prototype design, prototype testing, new product introduction, and transition into production.
  • Ability to work in an extremely fast paced environment with the capability to maintain organization across a large team and effectively triage issues and blockers across the product organization.

Nice to have

  • Experience with the design, implementation and support of robotic and/or autonomous systems
  • Experience working within the defense, maritime and/or aerospace domains
  • Experience with product roadmaps and generational product developments
  • Experience and training in program management

What the JD emphasized

  • extensive professional experience working as an Engineer
  • extensive professional experience working as a project lead or manager
  • extensive professional experience with detailed project planning
  • transitioning from prototype design, prototype testing, new product introduction, and transition into production