# Lead Hardware Engineer

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Waltham, Massachusetts
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $167,000-$222,000 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.

As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

The Anduril Imaging team develops state-of-the-art imaging systems across both hardware and software, deployed to tackle the most significant security challenges of America and its allies.

Anduril Imaging Hardware Lead Engineers are responsible for hardware architecture, development execution, and overall technical strategy for land, sea, air, and space EO/IR applications.

In this role, you will lead trade studies to define EO/IR system architectures, lead the multidisciplinary detailed design, analysis, and integration and test of EO/IR prototypes and products.

You will lead a small team of engineers from concept ideation through system definition and development.

You will carry products in your portfolio through NPI into production, and have overall oversight in to hardware sustainment and evolutionary development activities.

You will help shape internal and external investment priorities to grow the scope and impact of your product family.

Responsibilities:

- Own concept design and hardware architecture decisions for new engineering efforts

- Partner with Chief Engineers and product teams to align engineering execution with broader mission and capability goals.

- Lead engineering execution across hardware engineering disciplines.

- Drive products through NPI - lead initial builds, own clear to build, drive procedure and process generation, define V+V metrics

- Sustainment - Own the detailed continuous improvement roadmap and execution, oversee CRB activities, reactively deal with issues that impact the business, ensure timely and robust response to field issues

- Prioritize all of the above both within and across products in a mission area

Required Qualifications:

- Degree in a technical field such as mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, optical engineering, systems engineering, math, or a hard science.

- 8+ years of experience working with developing and deploying electromechanical systems, performing any or all of: system design, architecture definition, performance modeling, requirements allocations, as well as laboratory and field testing.

- Experience managing New Product Introduction and exposure to system sustainment at scale

- Deep understanding of system architecture, mission requirements, and full product lifecycle development.

- Proven experience leading high-performance engineering teams, ideally in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

- Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance

- Willingness to travel to test sites, as needed.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience defining and/or designing optical/imaging systems

- Knowledge of current and next-generation advanced sensing systems and platforms

- Experience with rapid prototyping and iterative development environments.

- Hands-on experience with advanced design tools, simulation, and test equipment.

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package.

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## Skills

### Required
- mechanical engineering
- electrical engineering
- optical engineering
- systems engineering
- math
- hard science
- electromechanical systems
- system design
- architecture definition
- performance modeling
- requirements allocations
- laboratory testing
- field testing
- New Product Introduction
- system sustainment
- system architecture
- mission requirements
- product lifecycle development
- leadership
- U.S. security clearance

### Nice to have
- optical/imaging systems
- advanced sensing systems
- rapid prototyping
- iterative development environments
- advanced design tools
- simulation
- test equipment

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