Anduril is seeking an Engineering Leader to join a group of amazingly talented people focused on delivering mission outcomes through technology. You will help lead the delivery of high stakes, high profile, complex customer programs while strengthening our engineering and program-specific capabilities across the business line. This is a technical leadership role within the group at Anduril that focuses on building hardware and software solutions, while connecting sensors and data across all domains, to all forces, and enabling and ensuring a scaled convergence of effects across a dynamic battle-space. We are looking for someone who has experience designing → building → and delivering complex customer programs that are diverse in nature and require you to leverage both technical expertise as well as leadership skills to set objectives, build teams, and drive projects to completion. The ideal candidate will leverage their experience managing and executing to successfully deliver highly complex, optimized, multi-disciplinary products and programs.
Altius is one of Anduril's Business Lines focused on building a next-gen software-enabled autonomous air vehicle capable of providing desired effects on the modern battlefield. We work with mission partners and operators to deploy reliable and robust capabilities on operationally-relevant fielding timelines to meet complex challenges across the DOD and IC.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Define a vision and develop a strategy for maturing our delivery model, weaving together customer intent and Anduril’s desired outcomes into a long-term roadmap for Altius business line strategy
• Strengthen and grow a dedicated software discipline around the end to end delivery of complex customer projects here at Anduril
• Effectively lead and execute complex customer programs while managing customer spend, transitioning [them] from R&D to production while working with the executive team
• Build and run a portfolio of software-driven programs that span major customer/capital spend AND/OR unpaid, self-funded IRAD to advance an objective, or support customer exercises
• Effectively lead, manage, and execute - from early stage system design, market surveys, and technical evaluations to later stage software development, system integration, testing and deployment and management of a potentially large number of engineers, spanning from embedded robotic software to Command and Control (C2) and simulation(s)

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• DOD background or extensive expertise in working with operational partners
• Proven history of managing multiple enterprise-scale partners
• Engineering product background and experience building a technical product
• Significant customer-facing experience (ie. strong inter-personal skills / executive gravitas) leading high profile and high stakes programs where success, and associated revenue collection, is tied to complete program success
• Managing complex personalities, high profile individuals and different relationships across government, services, commands, or countries
• Track record of transitioning to production while doing R&D
• Ability to decompose complex problems and define scope, timelines and milestones
• Managed major customer/capital spend on programs that required large numbers of engineers
• Deep understanding of unmanned aircraft and/or autonomous systems
• Knowledge of DO-178C and MIL-STD 822E
• Proven ability to drive rigorous software validation and verification in a dynamic delivery environment
• Strong understanding of the “why” behind Vehicle and Systems design
• Experience working on mission critical DOD systems
• Experience creating teams and focusing them around a common vision
• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical or Software engineering, or equivalent experience in a relevant field. Strong preference for Software or Electrical
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOD Top Secret clearance
• Designed → Built → Delivered experience
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOD Top Secret clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Software-centric background with an emphasis on integration(s) within customer systems
• Experience in a senior role leading air vehicle programs from initial concept through test and delivery to customers
• Software and hardware systems experience
• Experience with Command & Control systems

$193,800 - $290,700