# Mission Autonomy Lead

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $190,000-$250,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

You will own the Autonomy software stack within Mission Systems for a maritime autonomous vehicle, owning the software that enables autonomous mission execution.

Responsibilities:

- Own the autonomy software architecture , planning, execution, perception, and debrief , using open, modular architecture standards (MOSA/WOSA where applicable)

- Drive design of mission planning systems for autonomous aviation operations

- Drive mission execution software that manages vehicle behavior during missions

- Own perception systems that enable the vehicle to sense and interpret its environment

- Develop mission debrief capabilities for post-mission analysis and continuous improvement

- Build and maintain software development infrastructure (CI/CD, simulation, SITL/HITL)

- Define interfaces between the autonomy stack and vehicle management system in accordance with Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) principles

- Manage autonomy deliverables across development phases, including MBSE artifacts (e.g., SysML models, requirements traceability) as required by program systems engineering practices

- Provide technical mentorship to software and systems engineers

- Drive development of test and simulation fixtures for autonomy validation

- Represent the autonomy subsystem in technical and customer meetings

- Interface with Mission Systems Lead and Vehicle Systems on integration

- Travel up to 25% to test sites and customer locations

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent

- 5+ years of experience in autonomous systems, robotics, or AI/ML

- Experience delivering software through full product development cycles

- Demonstrated experience with autonomous navigation, planning, or perception systems

- Experience with modeling, simulation, and SITL/HITL testing

- Experience developing safety-critical or high-assurance software

- Proficiency in C++ and/or Python for real-time and mission-critical software systems

- Experience with Linux-based embedded or real-time operating systems

- Experience with version control and CI/CD tooling (e.g., Git, Jenkins, GitLab CI)

- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance

## Skills

### Required
- autonomous systems
- robotics
- AI/ML
- C++
- Python
- Linux
- Git
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI

### Nice to have
- autonomous aviation systems
- ROS/ROS2
- behavior trees
- computer vision
- EO/IR sensor processing
- distributed software architectures
- edge computing
- MBSE tooling
- digital engineering practices
- containerization
- deployment tooling
- simulation environments

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