Chief Engineer, Radar

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 253,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Chief Engineer to own stakeholder engagement, define radar product strategy, and lead design and development of core radar offerings. You will partner with the head of radar and leadership teams to align customer needs with engineering capabilities and roadmap decisions.

You will drive technical ownership, coordinate cross-functional efforts, and shepherd prototyping, development, and delivery while traveling up to 30% to meet customers and partners.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in Chief Engineer/PM/Engineering management or radar RF sensor roles.
• Strong radar system design knowledge and defense radar experience.
• Ability to work with stakeholders and engineering teams across disciplines.
• Experience shaping strategic pursuits and technology roadmaps.
• Willingness to travel 30% and eligible for a U.S. Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Engagement: Build relationships with internal and customer stakeholders to align objectives and secure buy-in.
• Technical ownership: Drive radar architecture and product development strategies with tradeoff analysis.
• Product Strategy: Define roadmap and communicate how and why initiatives win in the market.
• Tactical Execution: Prioritize engineering efforts, lead prototyping, development, and delivery.

Skills

Radar system design

RF sensors

Stakeholder engagement

Technical ownership

Product strategy

Education

Graduate degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical or Software engineering

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Modeling tools

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

About The Team

The Anduril Battlespace Awareness Radar team develops innovative and differentiated radar solutions to tackle significant security challenges for America and its allies. We are looking for highly collaborative engineers that will bring significant expertise, experience and energy to the team's endeavors.

About The Job

We are seeking a Chief Engineer to own stakeholder engagement, product definition, technical road map planning, and design and development approach. This is a unique role requiring you to develop a deep understanding of customer needs and challenges, the capabilities of our radar engineering teams, and current and future radar technologies. With this understanding you'll collaborate with the head of radar, engineering functional leads, strategic growth leads, division leadership and customers to define and develop critical radar product offerings.

What You Will Do

• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, customer stakeholders, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for the radar product you are responsible for.
• Technical ownership: Drive radar architecture and product development strategies through understanding of technical tradeoffs, requirements and opportunities for innovation.
• Product Strategy: Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to define a product strategy that will win in the marketplace by delivering differentiated value to our customers. Define the product development roadmap and communicate the how and why behind it.
• Tactical Execution: Organize and prioritize the engineering efforts required to bring the product to market, working with functional engineering teams, and other product owners to optimize resource utilization. Lead tactical execution of prototyping, development, and operational delivery of the product.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 4+ years experience as a Chief Engineer, Technical Program Manager, Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer of land, maritime, or airborne radars or other RF sensors
• Demonstrated understanding of radar system design
• Deep understanding of state-of-the-art radar technologies and radar for defense missions
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams.
• Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort
• Experience in shaping strategic pursuits and developing technology roadmaps.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with design and development of radar or other RF systems from concept to deployment
• Graduate degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical or Software engineering, or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Travel 30% for customer, vendor, and internal collaboration.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence
• Experience with modeling and simulation tools
• Experience with developing and fielding novel hardware/software products
• Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions
• Experience in delivering novel hardware and software solutions

US Salary Range

$253,000—$336,000 USD

Benefits

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

• At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

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