Chief Systems Architect — Digital Twin & V&V Leader

Anduril; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Chief Systems Architect for the Systems Integrity Group to build simulation and digital twin validation frameworks across the digital production stack. You will own the architecture and tooling for V&V that ensure output matches engineering intent.

Join early, lead a team of engineers, and deploy production-grade systems across factory environments, integrating with MES, ERP, PLM, and OT networks.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering background with production systems.
• Expertise in simulation frameworks and digital twin architectures.
• Strong knowledge of 3D visualization and real-time data integration.

Responsibilities

• Architect federated co-simulation and digital twin validation frameworks.
• Develop automated verification and validation tooling.
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineers to translate workflows into software requirements.
• Produce production-quality code with tests and code reviews.
• Lead development of Unreal Engine 5-based visualization frameworks.
• Build V&V automation pipelines across design, manufacturing, operations.
• Design integration layers between simulation and live production data.
• Deploy and operate systems in factory environments (edge compute, OT).
• Align architecture with MES/ERP/PLM integrations.
• Leverage AI tooling in development workflows and engineering practices.
• Participate in on-call production support.
• Hire and mentor a team of engineers.

Skills

Software architecture

Simulation

3D visualization

Unreal Engine

V&V automation

Edge/OT infra

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Jama/DOORS/Polarion

ERP/MES integration

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks a Chief Systems Architect for the Systems Integrity Group to build simulation and digital twin validation frameworks across the digital production stack. You will own the architecture and tooling for V&V that ensure output matches engineering intent.

Join early, lead a team of engineers, and deploy production-grade systems across factory environments, integrating with MES, ERP, PLM, and OT networks.