Description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.
The Senior Program Chief Engineer, International Programs role provides an opportunity for immediate impact on real-world operations for international engagements. You will create groundbreaking technology that operators need and trust. Your work will involve learning about gaps in existing defense capabilities, engaging with users, synthesizing feedback, and building the product infrastructure to support goals.
About You You are a proven technical leader who delivers timely, quality, and performant systems to clients. You represent client interests within the engineering team, bridge the gap between Engineering and Field Operations, and thrive in uncertainty.
Responsibilities
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners to gather insights and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives.
- Technical Ownership: Drive technical outcomes through understanding system performance, product development, and data analysis.
- Tactical Execution: Clarify the path between engineering development and operational delivery, and guide the team through fast-paced execution.
- Strategic Planning: Translate strategic business goals into actionable project plans and drive initiatives from conception to completion.
- Execute Autonomously: Execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from external clients and shape requirements in favor of the optimal product.
- Enable Cross Team Collaboration: Manage and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple teams and initiatives.
- Shape Growth Opportunities: Support drafting technical proposals and drive alignment of the technical roadmap with the strategic vision.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 8+ years experience as a Chief Engineer, Technical Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer in an autonomous systems, robotics, or software development environment.
- Proven client-facing technical program management and/or systems engineering experience within foreign military sales and international engagements.
- Familiarity with robotics, sensor integrations, or computer vision systems and their architecture preferred.
- Previous experience in a systems engineering role.
- Proven experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments.
- Experience working in a rapidly iterating test environment with high levels of integration with software development teams.
- Solid technical aptitude and ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges, and risks.
- Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders across a wide range of technical comfort.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be able to obtain a minimum Secret Clearance.
- Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong technical, analytical, and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions and drive decisions.
- Experience in building programs for software and testing deliverables from the ground up.
- Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction.
- Experience in rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes.
- Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or an Engineering discipline.
Benefits
- Healthcare Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Income Protection: Life and disability insurance.
- Generous time off: Highly competitive PTO plans.
- Family Planning & Parenting Support: Coverage for fertility treatments, adoption, and gestational carriers.
- Mental Health Resources: Access free mental health resources 24/7.
- Professional Development: Annual reimbursement for professional development.
- Commuter Benefits: Company-funded commuter benefits.
- Relocation Assistance: Available depending on role eligibility.
- Retirement Savings Plan: Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax options.