Systems Engineer, Air Defense

The role

This engineer will work on time synchronization and navigation accuracy across multiple vehicles. They will write interface specs with an outside manufacturing partner and engage with users to build product infrastructure.

What you will do

• Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners.
• Act as the primary technical liaison for the client.
• Drive technical outcomes through understanding of system performance.
• Represent the system in front of technical and nontechnical clients.
• Bring clarity to the path between engineering development and operational delivery.
• Translate strategic business goals and program requirements into actionable project plans.
• Oversee the allocation of personnel, budget, and other resources.
• Execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from external clients.
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects.
• Support the drafting of technical proposals.

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 4+ years experience as an engineer in an autonomous systems, robotics, or software development environment.
• Proven client-facing technical program management and/or systems engineering experience.
• Direct experience with GNSS/GPS timing, navigation systems, or multi-sensor position/timing fusion.
• Experience writing specs or interfaces that an external partner company builds against.
• Proven experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments.
• Experience working in a rapidly iterating test environment with high levels of integration with software development teams.
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks.
• Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be able to obtain a minimum Secret Clearance.
• Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time.

Nice to have

• A strong familiarity with robotics, sensor integrations, or computer vision systems and their architecture.
• Experience in building programs for software and testing deliverables from ground up.
• Prior experience in working on a vehicle/robotics platform.
• Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions.
• Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction.
• Experience in rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes.
• Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or an Engineering discipline.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

About the company

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