# Lead Scientist, Discovery

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Washington, District of Columbia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $253,000-$336,000 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.

The Discovery team at Anduril is at the forefront of incubating and maturing high-potential, software-defined, AI-native offerings that meet the toughest, newest challenges across hardware, software, space, and cyber domains.

Anduril is seeking a Lead Scientist to help shape and grow cross-business opportunities at the intersection of counter-UAS, tactical networking, autonomy, sensing, command-and-control, and advanced technology development.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as a senior technical lead for cross-business growth initiatives involving cUAS, networking, autonomy, sensing, C2, and advanced mission systems.

- Identify, shape, and mature new opportunities across Anduril business lines, working closely with product, engineering, strategy, capture, and customer-facing teams.

- Develop technical concepts, architectures, white papers, briefings, and demonstrations that connect customer mission needs to Anduril capabilities.

- Engage with senior government, military, and industry stakeholders to understand operational gaps and translate them into actionable technical and programmatic strategies.

- Lead early-stage technical solutioning for new business pursuits, including system architecture, integration approach, CONOPS, experimentation plans, and technical differentiation.

- Help define and mature advanced technology roadmaps in areas such as distributed sensing, autonomous defense, mesh networking, resilient communications, electronic warfare, and counter-UAS defeat chains.

- Support live demonstrations, exercises, experiments, and customer engagements that prove capability in operationally relevant environments.

- Work across Anduril teams to combine existing products and emerging technologies into integrated mission solutions.

- Provide technical leadership for proposals, capture activities, strategic campaigns, and new program formation.

- Mentor engineers, technologists, and program teams on mission architecture, customer problem framing, and technical strategy.

Required Qualifications:

- 12+ years of experience in advanced technology development, defense systems, applied research, mission engineering, product development, or technical program leadership.

- Deep technical expertise in one or more of the following areas: counter-UAS, tactical networking, resilient communications, autonomous systems, sensors, command-and-control, electronic warfare, distributed systems, or advanced defense technology.

- Demonstrated ability to move from ambiguous mission needs to executable technical concepts, architectures, prototypes, demonstrations, or programs.

- Experience working directly with defense, intelligence, homeland security, or national security customers.

- Strong understanding of operational mission threads, system integration, and how sensors, networks, autonomy, decision systems, and effectors come together in real-world environments.

- Ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly to senior technical, operational, and executive audiences.

- Experience supporting business development, capture, proposals, customer shaping, technology roadmaps, or new program creation.

- Demonstrated ability to work across organizations and influence teams without relying solely on direct authority.

- Must hold an active U.S. TS/SCI clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

- PhD in engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, physics, robotics, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical field.

- Experience leading advanced R&D, prototyping, experimentation, or transition of technology into operational programs.

- Experience with cUAS kill chains, air defense, integrated sensing, RF systems, EW, kinetic/non-kinetic defeat, or autonomous intercept concepts.

- Experience with tactical networks, mesh communications, datalinks, edge compute, distributed C2, or resilient mission connectivity.

- Experience developing concepts across multiple Anduril-relevant domains, including air, land, maritime, space, cyber, and homeland defense.

- Prior experience as a principal investigator, chief engineer, lead scientist, technical director, DARPA performer, service lab lead, or senior technical capture lead.

## Skills

### Required
- counter-UAS
- tactical networking
- autonomous systems
- sensors
- command-and-control
- electronic warfare
- distributed systems
- advanced defense technology

### Nice to have
- PhD in engineering or computer science
- cUAS kill chains
- air defense
- integrated sensing
- RF systems
- EW
- kinetic/non-kinetic defeat
- autonomous intercept concepts

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