# Mission System Lead, Seabed Sentry

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Quincy, Massachusetts
**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 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

## Skills

### Required
- Robotics
- Computer Science
- Software Engineering
- Mechatronics
- Electrical Engineering
- Mathematics
- Physics
- C++
- Rust
- Linux
- NixOS
- Distributed software platform
- Application architectures

### Nice to have
- MS or PhD in Computer Science
- Leadership position
- Modeling and simulation
- Python
- Go
- High performance computing
- Network programming
- Fault tolerance
- Fault handling
- DevSecOps

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