Chief Engineer, Autonomous Flight

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

The Air Dominance & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial and multi-domain robotic systems.

As a Chief Engineer, you will own the technical architecture and system-level design of the onboard autonomy stack, command and control systems, and modular payloads for our next-generation autonomous platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Lead systems engineering, requirements decomposition, and technical architecture for software-heavy robotics systems.
• Guide small, fast-moving groups of individual contributors through the design, implementation, and deployment phases of emerging programs.
• Oversee hardware/software integration and testing to ensure perception, motion planning, and task allocation algorithms run seamlessly on physical platforms.
• Partner with Product Managers and Business Development to convert customer mission needs and operational concepts into concrete technical milestones.
• Decide technical trade-offs across concurrent programs, helping teams prioritize engineering efforts.

Requirements:

• Proven track record directing technical architecture and guiding individual contributors as a lead engineer.
• Background in developing and fielding software-heavy robotics, autonomous systems, or aerospace products.
• Strong hardware/software integration skills, including robotics software architectures and tactical mission systems.
• Experience with autonomous systems, mission-critical Department of Defense systems, or tactical edge technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced knowledge in Motion Planning, Perception, Command & Control, SLAM, task allocation, or tactical networking.
• Work history involving multi-domain unmanned systems (air, ground, or maritime).
• Understanding of edge-AI/ML deployment on autonomous physical systems.

Benefits:

• Highly competitive equity grants.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including health, recovery, and other support.