Mission System Lead, Seabed Sentry

Anduril Industries is a defence technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. They bring the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defence industry.

Job Description

We are looking for a Mission System Lead, Seabed Sentry to join our rapidly growing Maritime team in Boston or Quincy, MA. In this role, you will design and develop the core decision-making and autonomy software that powers our autonomous underwater vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical leader owning software for Seabed Sentry
• Draw on both your technical expertise and leadership skills to set objectives, build cross-functional teams, and rapidly drive projects to completion
• Manage and develop a small team (3-4 employees initially), setting priorities, delegating work effectively, and providing coaching and mentorship to support individual growth and long-term career success
• Drive the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of payloads and mission systems
• Act as the technical owner for an entire mission system, including stakeholder and customer engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
• Organize integration events, scoping key deliverables and impact to broader program
• Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system
• Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time
• Generate system solutions to improve reliability, ease-of-use, and capability across a variety of customer missions
• Write and maintain core libraries (frame transformations, targeting and guidance, communications, etc.) that all robotics platforms at Anduril will use
• Own major feature development for Seabed Sentry and manage rollout to the fleet
• Travel up to 15% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world, and collaborate with other teams or end-users

Requirements

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Robotics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
• System architecture experience
• Hands-on experience developing software for embedded and physical devices
• Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization
• 6+ years of professional C++ or Rust programming experience in a Linux development environment
• Experience with NixOS
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
• Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures, running under dynamic network topologies
• Capacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment
• Demonstrated curiosity and ability to learn outside of core discipline, and a desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
• Experience engaging with customers to represent the technical aspects of a product portfolio regarding missions and payloads
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical teams
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance