Autonomous Warfare Systems Director

Advanced Automation Corporation; Mountain View (CA); Presencial; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental &amp

Retirement Plan - 401k with matching

Employer Paid Life Insurance (Basic)

FSA (Flexible Spending Account)

Generous Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Sick Leave

AFLAC (Supplementary Insurance)

Tuition Reimbursement Program

Descripción de la vacante

Advanced Automation Corporation is seeking a high-caliber Technical Director for autonomous warfare hardware, software, and enabling technologies across air, ground, and maritime domains. This role ensures programs are technically credible, scalable, and ready for transition from prototype to scaled production.

The ideal candidate blends deep technical skill with commercial product experience, systems thinking, and operational judgment to drive mission-ready outcomes across diverse environments.

Formación

• Deep expertise in autonomy, robotics, AI, or related fields.
• Meaningful commercial or government experience delivering autonomous products.
• Experience fielding production-grade systems outside controlled environments.
• Strong technical judgment across perception, planning, control, communications, compute, data, platforms, and operators.
• Experience defining requirements, testing, analyzing performance, and making evidence-based decisions.
• Understanding of production engineering practices: CI/CD, reliability, QA, cybersecurity, release processes, risk management, sustainment.
• Ability to communicate with engineers, operators, executives, acquisition professionals, and senior government leaders.
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility for Top Secret clearance.
• Willingness to travel approximately 30 percent.

Responsabilidades

• Drive technical execution and ownership of engineering milestones for autonomous warfare programs.
• Advise programs from problem definition through testing, transition, and fielding.
• Evaluate commercial systems for technical maturity, reliability, and scalability.
• Assess autonomy hardware/software stacks including sensing, perception, planning, control, and compute.
• Develop requirements, reference architectures, evaluation criteria, test approaches, and data strategies.
• Ensure testing produces evidence on performance, reliability, safety, usability, and interoperability.
• Distinguish production-ready systems from demonstrations by examining edge cases and deployment constraints.
• Engage with commercial leaders to resolve barriers and accelerate delivery.
• Mentor staff and raise portfolio technical rigor.

Conocimientos

Autonomy expertise

Commercial product experience

Operational judgment

Communication with engineers and execs

Willingness to travel

Herramientas

CI/CD

Cybersecurity

Descripción del empleo

Advanced Automation Corporation is seeking a high-caliber Technical Director for autonomous warfare hardware, software, and enabling technologies across air, ground, and maritime domains. This role ensures programs are technically credible, scalable, and ready for transition from prototype to scaled production.

The ideal candidate blends deep technical skill with commercial product experience, systems thinking, and operational judgment to drive mission-ready outcomes across diverse environments.