Engineering Lead, Air Defense U.S. Air Force Portfolio

The role

You will own the technical baseline for delivered configurations in the Air Defense portfolio. This includes managing architecture, interfaces, networks, and verification approaches for autonomous systems.

What you will do

• Own the technical baseline including architecture, interface set, and verification approach.
• Update the baseline when field evidence shows it is incomplete or wrong.
• Own the certification and accreditation scope.
• Integrate third-party and government-furnished hardware and software.
• Negotiate requirements and deviations with customer technical representatives.
• Define the verification and environmental qualification approach.
• Make the call on whether a configuration is ready to ship.
• Reproduce field failures on real hardware and lead recovery under time pressure.
• Carry the engineering position with the customer and in pursuits.
• Solve problems that recur across programs.

Required qualifications

• Engineering, science, or other technical degree, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of systems or engineering experience on fielded systems
• End-to-end accountability for whether a delivered system actually worked at the site
• Has owned the architecture, interface set, and verification approach for a delivered capability or a program's technical scope
• Experience integrating third-party and government-furnished hardware and software into a system you were accountable for
• Ability to define the verification approach for a full scope and explain why the planned coverage is sufficient
• Ability to negotiate requirements, deviations, and acceptance directly with a customer's technical representatives, and to write a credible basis of estimate
• Works from real hardware and real data: reproduces field failures independently before proposing a fix, and has run recovery at a fielded site under time pressure
• Ability to set technical direction for a small number of engineers without managing them
• Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to have

• Active Top Secret clearance, or current or prior special access program read-on
• Experience delivering counter-UAS, air defense, or installation defense capability to a U.S. Air Force customer
• Depth in one or more of: radar, passive RF detection, electro-optical and infrared sensors, effector integration, tactical networking, tactical data links, or command and control software
• Experience with accreditation and authorization for a fielded system, including STIG compliance, offline or disconnected operation, and government-approved data transfer
• Experience standardizing deployment networking or configuration management across multiple sites
• Experience with environmental qualification for extreme cold or other demanding operating environments
• Prior military or government service in an air defense, flight test, or special operations organization

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

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.