# Deputy Chief Engineer - Altius

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Atlanta, Georgia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $143,000-$191,000 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 a Deputy Chief Engineer at Anduril, you will be a pivotal force in the Tactical Recon & Strike division, working on cutting-edge products like Altius, Anvil, Bolt, and Ghost.

## Responsibilities

- Lead technical execution from vision & initial design, through fabrication, test and production

- Develop systems that support expeditionary operation, intuitive setup and use by warfighters, and modular expansion of sensors

- Setup trades to enable exploration of early designs while working closely with technical SMEs and Business Development teams to find the right solution for current and future gaps in capability

- Operate at the intersection of software and hardware helping to craft a system level architecture that supports a robust and cost effective design

- Define product milestones, lead technical design reviews, guide cross-functional product decisions, manage engineering risk

- Coordinate the fabrication of prototype and low-rate production articles and subsystem/system level test efforts

- Work with senior leadership to ensure resource plans are adequate for work scope

- Support remote troubleshooting and operation of deployed systems

- Conduct hands-on, in-field testing

- Create and carry out a verification and validation plan for the end to end system

## Required Qualifications

- Experience in a senior role leading system design and development from initial concept through test and delivery to customers

- Basic understanding of Aerodynamics, Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), Control Actuation Servos, and how those disciplines relate to overall system performance.

- Technical Bachelor’s degree such as Robotics, Physics, Mechanical, Electrical, Software engineering, or equivalent experience in a relevant field

- Experience with data analysis, rapid prototyping, and early-stage customer deployment

- Hands-on build and prototyping of complex robotic systems

- Familiarity with concepts of mechatronic design, firmware + software system design, sensor physics, tracking & calibration, and data-backed decision making.

- Ability to engage technically with mechanical, electrical, firmware, sensors, and robotics software leads

- Ability to lead a cross-functional team through design trades while meeting program deadlines

- High ownership, mission-oriented mentality. Desire to see the product meet the end need of the customer.

- Extremely organized and detail-oriented, with strong verbal & written communication skills

- A sincere commitment to a positive, inclusive, and collaborative culture

- Desire to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret security clearance

- Ability to travel as required for test planning and execution

- Real-world operational experience with small UAS systems in a military context desired

## Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

## Skills

### Required
- Aerodynamics
- Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs)
- Control Actuation Servos
- Robotics
- Physics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Data Analysis
- Rapid Prototyping
- Mechatronic Design
- Firmware + Software System Design
- Sensor Physics
- Tracking & Calibration
- Data-Backed Decision Making

### Nice to have
- Real-world operational experience with small UAS systems in a military context

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