# Engineering Lead, Air Defense U.S. Air Force Portfolio **Company**: Anduril Industries **Location**: Irvine, California **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5272511007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_f4a9b495-a02 ## Description Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years. ## ABOUT THE TEAM Anduril's Air Defense team develops, integrates, and fields autonomous systems that find, track, and defeat threats in the sky while keeping operators in control of engagement decisions. The team brings together Roadrunner, Sentry, Anvil, Pulsar, and Wisp with existing and third-party sensors and effectors through Lattice, creating a software-enabled family of systems for the modern battlespace. ## ABOUT THE JOB The U.S. Air Force is one of Anduril's largest and fastest-growing air defense customers, and the work has moved well past demonstrations. The portfolio runs programs of record, multi-year IDIQs, and recurring sustainment at the same time, and installation defense is scaling from individual sites toward a service-wide posture. You are the engineering lead across all of it. You own the technical baseline for the delivered configurations in the portfolio: the architecture, the interfaces to Anduril and third-party sensors and effectors, the networks underneath them, the accreditation scope, and the verification approach that determines whether any of it is ready. ## RESPONSIBILITIES - Own the technical baseline. Architecture, interface set, and verification approach for the delivered configurations across the portfolio. - Set the baseline for each, and update it when field evidence shows the current one is incomplete or wrong. - Own the certification and accreditation scope where it applies, working with the teams responsible for those functions. - Integrate systems you do not own. Most of what these systems connect to belongs to someone else: equipment already on the base, partner command and control we integrate with rather than replace, government-furnished equipment, third-party sensors and effectors arriving through the Lattice SDK, and tactical data links into the wider air picture. - Negotiate requirements, deviations, and acceptance directly with a customer's technical representatives, and to write a credible basis of estimate. - Works from real hardware and real data: reproduces field failures independently before proposing a fix, and has run recovery at a fielded site under time pressure. - Ability to set technical direction for a small number of engineers without managing them. - Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time. ## REQUIREMENTS - Engineering, science, or other technical degree, or equivalent practical experience - 8+ years of systems or engineering experience on fielded systems - End-to-end accountability for whether a delivered system actually worked at the site, not only for producing its design artifacts - Has owned the architecture, interface set, and verification approach for a delivered capability or a program's technical scope - Experience integrating third-party and government-furnished hardware and software into a system you were accountable for - Ability to define the verification approach for a full scope and explain why the planned coverage is sufficient - Ability to negotiate requirements, deviations, and acceptance directly with a customer's technical representatives, and to write a credible basis of estimate - Works from real hardware and real data: reproduces field failures independently before proposing a fix, and has run recovery at a fielded site under time pressure - Ability to set technical direction for a small number of engineers without managing them - Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time - Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance ## Skills ### Required - AI - autonomy - computer vision - sensor fusion - networking technology - Lattice OS - architecture - interface set - verification approach - integration - government-furnished equipment - third-party sensors and effectors ### Nice to have - Active Top Secret clearance - counter-UAS - air defense - installation defense - radar - passive RF detection - electro-optical and infrared sensors - effector integration - tactical networking - tactical data links - command and control software --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5272511007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)