Chief Engineer, USMC, Air Defense

The role

You will serve as the single technical authority for USMC Air Defense programs. You will own system architecture, integration strategy, and technical performance for sensors, effectors, and command and control systems.

What you will do

• Serve as Chief Engineer for Air Defense's U.S. Marine Corps programs.
• Own system architecture, integration strategy, fielding readiness, and sustainment outcomes.
• Set the technical baseline and chair design reviews.
• Maintain the engineering baseline for a deployed fleet.
• Run engineering change and configuration management.
• Design systems within size, weight, power, and transportability limits.
• Own the technical case through government demonstrations and fly-offs.
• Review product team plans before they are shown to customers.
• Lead recovery for degraded fielded sites under time pressure.
• Represent engineering positions to the Marine Corps program office and authorities.

Required qualifications

• Engineering, science, or other technical degree, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of systems or engineering experience, with a track record of technical ownership on fielded systems
• End-to-end technical accountability for whether a delivered system worked in an operational environment
• Ownership of the architecture, interface set, and verification approach for a program or portfolio delivered to a U.S. defense customer
• Ability to carry technical authority across teams that do not report to you
• Ability to brief senior technical leadership and customer program leadership directly
• Ability to negotiate requirements, deviations, and acceptance with a customer's technical representatives
• Ability to write a credible basis of estimate
• Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time, including overseas
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to have

• Experience delivering counter-UAS, ground-based air defense, or force protection capability to the U.S. Marine Corps
• Experience running recovery at a fielded site under time pressure, working from real hardware and real data
• Experience integrating third-party and government-furnished hardware and software into a system you were accountable for
• Prior Marine Corps service, or experience in a Marine Corps program office or test and evaluation organization
• Experience fielding dismounted or vehicle-mounted systems, including platform integration and design under tight size, weight, and power limits
• Experience sustaining a system at multiple permanent installations under an availability commitment
• Configuration management and engineering change experience on a program of record, including system safety and item identification requirements
• Experience owning a system's technical case through a competitive government demonstration or fly-off
• Depth in one or more of: radar, passive RF detection and electronic warfare, electro-optical and infrared sensors, effector integration, tactical networking, or air defense command and control
• Experience fielding at overseas installations, including host-nation spectrum and site approvals

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
• Consent to use 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.