# Program Chief Engineer **Company**: Anduril **Location**: Sydney, New South Wales **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5179808007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_4ddb1fa2-6f4 ## Description ## About the Role As a Program Chief Engineer you will be responsible for defining and driving the system's architecture, technical roadmap, and overall engineering excellence. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team of high-performing engineers, ensuring that the system meets stringent performance, reliability, and mission requirements in challenging maritime environments. This role combines strategic technical leadership with direct hands-on involvement in critical design and integration challenges. This is a highly visible and impactful role where your deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership will directly contribute to delivering transformative capabilities for national security. ## Responsibilities - Technical Leadership & Vision: Define and articulate the technical vision and strategic roadmap for the system, ensuring alignment with Anduril's broader Dive-XL Core Platform and customer needs. Work directly with the product team to ensure tactical development is executed on plan. - Architectural Design Authority: Serve as the ultimate technical authority for the system architecture, design decisions, and critical trade-offs across all engineering disciplines. - System Integration & Performance: Oversee the end-to-end development lifecycle, from requirements definition and conceptual design through detailed design, integration, test, and deployment. - Test & Evaluation: Define and oversee the test and evaluation strategy, including acceptance criteria, test readiness reviews, and support to customer acceptance testing. - Technical Problem Solving: Lead the resolution of complex technical challenges, acting as a hands-on expert and guiding teams through difficult design, integration, or operational issues. - Technical Trade-offs: Drive build vs. buy decisions, manage technical debt, and balance speed of delivery against long-term system sustainability. - Team Mentorship & Development: Provide technical mentorship, guidance, and critical review for engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, excellence, and rigorous problem-solving. - Risk and Opportunity Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate technical risks throughout the program lifecycle, developing contingency plans and advising program leadership. - Customer & Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a primary technical point of contact for internal stakeholders, customers, and partners. Clearly communicate complex technical information, program status, and strategic direction. - Cross-Site Coordination: Collaborate closely with the US Chief Engineer counterpart to ensure technical alignment across program variants, share lessons learned, and maintain architectural consistency. - Requirements Management: Ensure robust requirements decomposition, traceability, and verification plans are in place for all subsystems. - Innovation & Research: Stay abreast of cutting-edge technologies, research, and industry trends relevant to autonomous underwater systems, incorporating best practices and innovative solutions. ## Requirements - Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline. - 15+ years of experience in the design, development, integration, and deployment of complex autonomous systems. - 5+ years of demonstrated experience as a Chief Engineer, Technical Director, Lead Architect, Engineering Fellow, or equivalent senior technical leadership role on a major hardware/software program. - Proficiency in systems engineering principles, including requirements management, interface control, verification, and validation. - Proven ability to lead and mentor highly technical, multi-disciplinary engineering teams. - Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences. - Must be able to obtain and maintain an Australian National Security Clearance (NV2 or higher). ## Preferred Qualifications - Deep expertise across multiple AUV sub-domains, such as hydrodynamics, propulsion, power systems, underwater acoustics, navigation, autonomy, materials science, mechanical design, and software architectures. - Active Australian National Security Clearance (NV2 or higher). - Experience with the full lifecycle of Australian Defence Force (ADF) acquisition programs. - Demonstrated understanding of Australian defence contracting frameworks. - Experience with system safety engineering practices and familiarity with submarine/AUV safety certification processes. - Familiarity with cybersecurity best practices for autonomous systems. - Expertise in AI/ML applications for AUV autonomy, perception, and decision-making. - Experience with advanced manufacturing techniques for marine systems. ## Benefits Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, including top-tier benefits for full-time employees. ## Salary The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. ## Skills ### Required - Mechanical Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Aerospace Engineering - Robotics - Computer Science - systems engineering - requirements management - interface control - verification - validation ### Nice to have - hydrodynamics - propulsion - power systems - underwater acoustics - navigation - autonomy - materials science - mechanical design - software architectures - AI/ML - cybersecurity --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5179808007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)