# Mission Systems Lead - Thunder

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000-$292,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is seeking an engineering leader to join the Maneuver Dominance team at our Costa Mesa HQ. The Maneuver Dominance (MD) Team at Anduril develops aerial robotic systems designed to operate in large coordinated teams in concert with ground maneuver forces.

The successful candidate will lead the technical development and integration of mission systems of the core Thunder platform. This encompasses the mission autonomy, mission equipment, and payload systems. The ideal candidate will leverage their experience executing and successfully completing prior highly optimized multi-disciplinary projects.

Responsibilities:

- Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system for a new Maneuver Dominance platform.

- Partner with the Vehicle Software team to develop interface requirements between Vehicle Management System and Mission System stacks.

- Oversee payload system integration with the host vehicle mission system stack.

- Oversee weapon system integration, including compliance with applicable munitions/range safety and export control requirements.

- Drive architecture selection and design for robotic mission systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture.

- Own the mission system’s interoperability and open-architecture posture, including compliance with MOSA/WOSA principles and STANAG 4586/4671.

- Define and own the payload/weapon interface control documents (ICDs) governing MIL-STD-1760 and MIL-STD-1553 integration.

- Partner with airworthiness/certification stakeholders to ensure mission system design supports Thunder’s path to airworthiness approval.

- Contribute to the design and development of a company-wide roadmap for mission system integration into Maneuver Dominance platforms.

- Lead teams that develop software that runs on- and off-platform, using a variety of technologies.

- Drive the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of mission software.

- Drive the creation of test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software- and hardware-in-the-loop.

- Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment.

- Lead teams of multi-disciplinary engineers.

Requirements:

- Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system

- Experience managing engineering teams within a high performing technology organization

- Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures

- Experience with modeling and simulation

- Experience with Python and modern systems/application programming languages

- Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software

- Experience developing comprehensive unit, integration, and regression test suites

- Deep understanding of weapon and payload integration for autonomous systems

- Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment

- Familiarity with vehicle management systems

- Familiarity with Systems Engineering concepts

- Familiarity with modular open systems approaches (MOSA/WOSA)

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- C++
- Rust
- Modeling and Simulation
- Distributed Software Platforms
- Autonomous Systems
- Systems Engineering
- MOSA/WOSA
- STANAG 4586

### Nice to have
- Robotics
- Mechatronics
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Airworthiness Certification
- Export Control Considerations

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