Chief Engineer, Maritime Integrated Systems

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

As the Chief Engineer, Maritime Integrated Systems, you will lead the technical development of maritime products from concept to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the initial design, prototyping, capability verification, and delivery of a maritime autonomous weapon system.
• Manage the initial design of the system and subsystems including system architecture development, requirements definition, system and sub-system trades and optimization, risk management etc.
• Perform systems engineering and trade analyses to enable the exploration and rapid iteration of early conceptual designs.
• Coordinate closely with manufacturing and supply chain teams to ensure design for manufacturing is embedded in early concepts and matured to support full rate production at scale.
• Work with senior leadership to ensure resource plans are adequate for work scope.
• Oversee technical execution of the generation of a new surface product for Anduril Maritime.
• Define key capabilities, milestones, and demonstrations to enable continuous development and maturation of autonomous systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Naval Architecture, Systems Engineering, Marine Engineering, or equivalent.
• Minimum of 15 years experience with technical leadership and systems engineering on defense systems or weapon programs.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Travel 25% to Customer and Test Sites.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated understanding of multi-domain unmanned and autonomous weapon system development and employment.
• Demonstrated engineering management capability; proven technical and personnel leadership qualities.
• Experience in technical leadership of weapon or defense system programs from initial concept design through transition to full development, testing and qualification, and rate manufacture.
• Strong understanding of autonomous system architecture and overall design approach for unmanned weapons systems.
• Experience working on mission critical DOD systems.
• Experience building and managing cross-functional teams focused around a common vision.