Head of Frontier AI, Integrated Systems

Anduril Industries is seeking a Head of Frontier AI to build a world-class machine learning team across capabilities, product, and infrastructure. In this role, you will be responsible for driving the overall strategy for instantiating safe and secure agentic and perception capabilities relevant to the division's programs and products and set research initiatives that usher in new frameworks of operator-to-agent teaming to achieve operational-efficiency.

Key responsibilities include:

• Drive strategy that fields safe and secure performant agents on embedded warfighting compute.
• Manage a cohort of cleared machine learning engineers, researchers, and product managers.
• Provide deep technical leadership to team on design, development, and deployment of advanced AI solutions.
• Leverage and shape the world's largest defense robotics data set to develop cutting-edge AI capabilities.
• Coordinate with internal testing and evaluation team(s) to design specialized evaluation benchmarks for defense use-cases.
• Partner with US-based Frontier AI Labs to revolutionize the employment of autonomy in embedded hardware.

Required qualifications include:

• Management experience leading and growing AI/ML teams.
• Experience deploying AI-technologies into classified environments (e.g., disconnected, air-gapped, etc.).
• Expertise in deep learning techniques and the latest generative AI technologies (Agents, Vision-Language Action models, etc.).
• Strong programming skills.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Experience with edge-deployed ML systems.
• Prior work in Defense Tech and/or Start Ups.
• Active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance.