Anduril Industries - Mission Systems Lead, Omen
Requirements
• Experience as a Senior or staff robotics or software development engineer • Experience managing engineering teams within a high performing technology organization • Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures, running under dynamic network topologies • Experience with Python and modern systems/application programming languages (e.g., C++, Rust) • Deep understanding of autonomous systems, inclusive of perception and payload capabilities across commercial and military mission sets • Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment • Familiarity with vehicle management systems and Systems Engineering concepts, including requirements traceability and ICDs • Familiarity with modular open systems approaches and standard interface protocols for air vehicle mission systems • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance • Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience • Experience with high assurance safety critical software, modeling and simulation, and comprehensive unit, integration, and regression test suites • Experience delivering perception, world modeling, or assured navigation capability for autonomous vehicles in GPS-denied environments • Experience building mission planning, operator control, or post-mission debrief tooling for uncrewed systems • Experience integrating third-party or government-furnished payloads into a new host platform, including ICD negotiation with external vendors • Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems • Track record of mentoring senior engineers, building team cohesion and capacity • Operational experience with autonomous air systems, ideally Group 3 or shipboard/expeditionary launch and recovery
Responsibilities
• Own customer success through the design and delivery of fully operational mission systems for a new Anduril platform, covering Mission Perception, Mission Autonomy, and Payloads. • Build and lead the Mission Systems team. Hire and manage multi-disciplinary engineers, mentor Junior and Senior Software Engineers from differing backgrounds, and set the team norms, technical standards, and review practices that let the team move quickly while delivering a fieldable solution. • Define and own the technical roadmap for Omen Mission Systems across short, medium, and long term horizons, balancing delivery against the current production commitment with the architecture investments that carry the platform forward. • Mission Autonomy: Own the software stack that enables Omen to autonomously execute customer defined missions. Includes a lifecycle toolchain covering mission design, planning, operation, and debrief, along with operator command and control. • Mission Autonomy: • Mission Payloads: Own integration of payload modules with the host vehicle mission system stack, including power, bandwidth, timing, and autonomy interfaces. Integrations to include passive and active sensor modalities along with launched effects, electronic warfare payloads and more. • Mission Payloads: • Mission Perception: Own sensing and world model development, and safe and assured navigation, including operation in GPS-denied conditions and recovery to moving or austere landing sites. • Mission Perception: • Lead demonstrations of Autonomy, Payload operations, and Perception kits in increasingly representative environments from the lab to surrogates to Omen. • Partner with the Vehicle Software team on interfacing requirements between the Vehicle Management System and Mission System stacks. • Drive architecture selection and design for robotic mission systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture, with explicit consideration of modular open systems approaches. • Define and own the payload interface control documents (ICDs) governing integration with third-party and government-furnished payload vendors. • Travel to support test events, vendor collaboration, end-user engagements and/or co-locate with other teams up to 25% of the time.
Benefits
• $253,000 - $336,000 USD • The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: • At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits. • Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams • Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information. • To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind: • No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates. • No Financial Requests: • Please always verify communications: • Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an @anduril.com address. • Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency's authenticity by reaching out to [email protected]. • Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links. • Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: • What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to [email protected]. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts. • What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: • Data Privacy • Data Privacy • To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/. • By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security.
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