Chief Engineer, Dive-LD

The role

You will lead the technical development of maritime products from concept to delivery. You will manage design, prototyping, and capability verification for maritime autonomous systems.

What you will do

• Lead and manage the initial design, prototyping, capability verification, and delivery of a maritime autonomous system
• Manage the initial design of the system and subsystems including system architecture development, requirements definition, system and sub-system trades and optimization, risk management
• Perform systems engineering and trade analyses to enable the exploration and rapid iteration of early conceptual designs
• Coordinate closely with manufacturing and supply chain teams to ensure design for manufacturing is embedded in early concepts
• Work with senior leadership to ensure resource plans are adequate for work scope
• Oversee technical execution of the generation of a new surface product for Anduril Maritime
• Define key capabilities, milestones, and demonstrations to enable continuous development and maturation of autonomous systems

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Naval Architecture, Systems Engineering, Marine Engineering, or equivalent, or proven experience in a relevant field
• Minimum of 15 years experience with technical leadership and systems engineering on defense systems or weapon programs
• Strong Systems engineering and architecture definition background to bridge software service and hardware product developments
• Strong working understanding of how product development rolls into program acquisitions
• Strong leadership qualities and collaborative/integrative leadership demonstrated capacity
• Experience working with, defining, and fielding sensing payloads and comms architectures
• Ability to support and/or manage technological roadmaps in critical areas
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret 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
• Experience in technical leadership of weapon or defense system programs from initial concept design through transition to full development, testing and qualification, and rate manufacture
• Strong understanding of autonomous system architecture and overall design approach for unmanned weapons systems
• Experience working on mission critical DOD systems
• Experience building and managing cross-functional teams focused around a common vision

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants
• 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 security 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 Maritime Division develops, tests, deploys, and sustains maritime capabilities in a challenging operational environment worldwide.