Chief Engineer, Autonomous Flight

The role

You will own the technical architecture and system-level design of the onboard autonomy stack, command and control systems, and modular payloads for next-generation autonomous platforms. You will guide multi-disciplinary engineering teams from design through deployment.

What you will do

• Lead systems engineering, requirements decomposition, and technical architecture for software-heavy robotics systems.
• Guide small, fast-moving groups of individual contributors through design, implementation, and deployment phases.
• Oversee hardware/software integration and testing including simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and field testing.
• Partner with Product Managers and Business Development to convert customer mission needs into technical milestones.
• Decide technical trade-offs across concurrent programs to prioritize engineering efforts.

Required qualifications

• Proven track record directing technical architecture and guiding individual contributors as a lead engineer
• Background in developing and fielding software-heavy robotics, autonomous systems, or aerospace products
• Strong hardware/software integration skills, including robotics software architectures and tactical mission systems
• Experience with autonomous systems, mission-critical Department of Defense systems, or tactical edge technologies
• Ability to travel up to 25% to customer sites and field testing locations
• BS, MS, or PhD in Robotics, Aerospace, ME, EE, CS, or equivalent
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret clearance

Nice to have

• Advanced knowledge in Motion Planning, Perception, Command & Control, SLAM, task allocation, or tactical networking
• Work history involving multi-domain unmanned systems (air, ground, or maritime)
• Understanding of edge-AI/ML deployment on autonomous physical systems

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret clearance
• Consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The company's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.