# Chief Engineer, Tactical Recon and Strike

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $254,000-$336,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Chief Engineer at Anduril, you will be a pivotal force in the Tactical Recon & Strike division, working on cutting-edge products like Altius, Anvil, Bolt, and Ghost. This role demands a tenacious problem-solver with a cross-functional background in electrical engineering, controls engineering, software engineering, mechanical engineering, and small drone systems development. You will drive the technical direction, ensure robust product design, and guide cross-functional teams to deliver critical capabilities that empower our mission.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead technical execution from vision & initial design, through fabrication, test and production

- Develop systems that support expeditionary operation, intuitive setup and use by warfighters, and modular expansion of sensors

- Setup trades to enable exploration of early designs while working closely with technical SMEs and Business Development teams to find the right solution for current and future gaps in capability

- Operate at the intersection of software and hardware helping to craft a system level architecture that supports a robust and cost-effective design

- Define product milestones, lead technical design reviews, guide cross-functional product decisions, manage engineering risk

- Coordinate the fabrication of prototype and low-rate production articles and subsystem/system level test efforts

- Work with senior leadership to ensure resource plans are adequate for work scope

- Support remote troubleshooting and operation of deployed systems

- Conduct hands-on, in-field testing

- Create and carry out a verification and validation plan for the end-to-end system

Requirements:

- 12+ years of direct experience in a senior role leading system design and development from initial concept through test and delivery to customers

- Basic understanding of Aerodynamics, Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), Control Actuation Servos, and how those disciplines relate to overall system performance.

- Technical Bachelor’s degree such as Robotics, Physics, Mechanical, Electrical, Software engineering, or equivalent experience in a relevant field

- Experience with data analysis, rapid prototyping, and early-stage customer deployment

- Hands-on build and prototyping of complex robotic systems

- Familiarity with concepts of mechatronic design, firmware + software system design, sensor physics, tracking & calibration, and data-backed decision making.

- Ability to engage technically with mechanical, electrical, firmware, sensors, and robotics software leads

- Ability to lead a cross-functional team through design trades while meeting program deadlines

- High ownership, mission-oriented mentality. Desire to see the product meet the end need of the customer.

- Extremely organized and detail-oriented, with strong verbal & written communication skills

- A sincere commitment to a positive, inclusive, and collaborative culture

- Desire to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret security clearance

- Ability to travel as required for test planning and execution

- Real-world operational experience with small UAS systems in a military context desired

Salary: $254,000 - $336,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- Aerodynamics
- Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs)
- Control Actuation Servos
- Data Analysis
- Rapid Prototyping
- Mechatronic Design
- Firmware
- Software System Design
- Sensor Physics
- Tracking & Calibration
- Data-Backed Decision Making

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