# Vehicle Systems Lead

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000-$292,000 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 the Vehicle Systems Lead, you will lead the technical development and integration of vehicle systems for a maritime product, from initial concept through delivery.

## Responsibilities

- Ownership of the Vehicle System, interfaces to other Systems, and overall performance against the Program and Product requirements for a new start platform

- Schedule and execution ownership for vehicle system across product generations, including timeframe of development, prototype testing, demonstrations, transitioning from prototype designs to rate manufacturing etc.

- Responsibility for vehicle developmental budget and cost performance, ensuring all subsystems are compliant and targeting cost reduction according to system cost plan

- Technical leadership at the vehicle system level, including overall responsibility for technical performance, implementation and adherence to design principals and tenets, sustainment of issue resolution activities, etc.

- Escalation path for technical decision making and/or deconfliction for the vehicle system team. Additional decision making/escalation to be done through Maritime Chief Engineer

- Represent the vehicle system in leadership meetings, customer interfacing meetings, and wherever else appropriate

- Lead meetings across the vehicle team at the necessary cadences such as daily standup, sprint planning, retro, monthlies, all-hands etc.

- Interface directly with Chief Engineer and other system leads on technical challenges and issue resolution

- Interface directly with peers across Production, Payloads, Mission Systems, Field Operations, Product Management, and Sustainment teams to align execution streams to product level schedule.

- Drive platform level trade studies across critical systems and subsystems to inform generational architectural updates and changes to the platform.

- Lead and mentor Senior and Principal level engineers for growth towards platform level leadership roles.

## Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience

- Extensive professional experience working as an Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise.

- Extensive professional experience working as a project lead or manager driving execution across diverse engineering disciplines.

- Extensive professional experience with detailed project planning at the product or system level across diverse engineering disciplines.

- Experience with projects, programs, or products transitioning from prototype design, prototype testing, new product introduction, and transition into production.

- Ability to work in an extremely fast paced environment with the capability to maintain organization across a large team and effectively triage issues and blockers across the product organization.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with the design, implementation and support of robotic and/or autonomous systems

- Experience working within the defense, maritime and/or aerospace domains

- Experience with product roadmaps and generational product developments

- Experience and training in program management

## Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including a comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) that ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

## Skills

### Required
- Robotics
- Mechatronics
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Project Planning
- Leadership

### Nice to have
- Autonomous Systems
- Defense
- Maritime
- Aerospace
- Program Management

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