Chief Engineer, Radar

The Anduril Battlespace Awareness Radar team develops innovative radar solutions to tackle significant security challenges for America and its allies. We are looking for a Chief Engineer to own stakeholder engagement, product definition, technical road map planning, and design and development approach.

Responsibilities:

• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, customer stakeholders, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for the radar product.
• Technical ownership: Drive radar architecture and product development strategies through understanding of technical tradeoffs, requirements and opportunities for innovation.
• Product Strategy: Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to define a product strategy that will win in the marketplace by delivering differentiated value to our customers.
• Tactical Execution: Organize and prioritize the engineering efforts required to bring the product to market, working with functional engineering teams, and other product owners to optimize resource utilization.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 4+ years experience as a Chief Engineer, Technical Program Manager, Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer of land, maritime, or airborne radars or other RF sensors
• Demonstrated understanding of radar system design
• Deep understanding of state-of-the-art radar technologies and radar for defense missions
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks
• Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort
• Experience in shaping strategic pursuits and developing technology roadmaps
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with design and development of radar or other RF systems from concept to deployment
• Graduate degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical or Software engineering, or equivalent experience in a relevant field
• Travel 30% for customer, vendor, and internal collaboration
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary range: $253,000-$336,000 USD
• Highly competitive equity grants
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees