# Mission Systems - Payload Lead, Maritime

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $191,000-$253,000 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 payload integration within Mission Systems for a maritime autonomous vehicle, owning integration of Anduril and third-party payloads from concept through deployment.

## Responsibilities

- Own payload architecture: mechanical, electrical, and software interfaces for all mission payloads

- Drive integration of Anduril payloads and government-furnished equipment onto the platform

- Drive interoperability standards for payload modularity across vehicle configurations

- Develop reference mission kits that package payloads with autonomy behaviors for specific mission sets

- Define payload interface requirements and work with Vehicle Systems on accommodation

- Manage payload integration schedule and cost across prototype and production phases

- Coordinate with third-party vendors on payload qualification and integration

- Provide technical mentorship to engineers across payload disciplines

- Support testing and field deployment of payload systems

- Represent the payload subsystem in technical and customer meetings

- Interface with Mission Systems Lead and autonomy team on mission system integration

- Travel up to 25% to test sites, vendor facilities, and customer locations

## Required Qualifications

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

- 5+ years of experience in payload integration, weapons systems, or mission systems

- Experience delivering payload integration in defense or aerospace environments

- Demonstrated experience with sensor integration, weapons systems, or C4ISR payloads

- Experience with the full product delivery lifecycle: design, test, manufacturing, deployment

- Deep understanding of military mission sets and payload capabilities

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

## Skills

### Required
- payload integration
- mission systems
- sensor integration
- weapons systems
- C4ISR payloads
- AI-powered operating system
- Lattice OS

### Nice to have
- maritime or undersea payload systems
- payload certification
- weapons safety (MIL-STD-882E)
- autonomous systems payload integration
- modular open systems architecture (MOSA)

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