# Principal Technical Lead, AI Robotics

**Company**: Anduril Frontier Systems
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California, United States
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $254,000-$444,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a senior technical leader to architect and drive the development of our autonomous robotic systems program. You will set the technical direction, own the system architecture, and lead a team of RL engineers, manipulation engineers, perception engineers, and robotics engineers. This is a hands-on technical leadership role , you will write code, review designs, and make consequential technical decisions daily.

- Define and own the system architecture for autonomous robotic platforms: locomotion, manipulation, perception, teleoperation, and whole-body control

- Lead a team of 8-10 engineers across RL, imitation learning, perception, simulation, and hardware

- Set technical direction for sim-to-real transfer, policy architecture, and whole-body control integration

- Drive milestone execution on an aggressive 6-month delivery timeline

- Make build-vs-buy decisions for hardware platforms, simulation tools, and ML frameworks

- Represent the technical program to leadership, mission partners, and external stakeholders

- Personally contribute to the most critical technical challenges

Required qualifications:

- 7+ years of experience in robotics, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role

- Deep expertise in at least one of: reinforcement learning, robot manipulation, legged locomotion, or whole-body control

- Track record of shipping robotic systems that operate in the real world

- Strong software engineering skills (Python, C++)

- Experience leading and growing technical teams (5+ engineers)

- Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with legged or multi-limbed robotic platforms

- Experience with defense or national security applications

- Publications in top robotics or ML venues

- Prior startup or defense technology experience

- Active U.S. TS/SCI security clearance

## Skills

### Required
- reinforcement learning
- robot manipulation
- legged locomotion
- whole-body control
- Python
- C++

### Nice to have
- legged or multi-limbed robotic platforms
- defense or national security applications
- publications in top robotics or ML venues
- prior startup or defense technology experience

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