Engineering Lead, Air Defense Systems Portfolio

Anduril Industries; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity grants

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is helping redefine air defense with autonomous, software-enabled systems. We seek an engineering lead to own the technical baseline, architecture, and verification across the portfolio, coordinating with sensors, government-furnished equipment, and third-party integrations to ensure field readiness.

You will manage multiple deployment contexts, drive alignment with customers, and shape the technical content behind proposals, while steering improvements to prevent repeat field

Qualifications

• Engineering, science, or other technical degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of systems or engineering experience on fielded systems.
• End-to-end accountability for whether a delivered system worked at the site.
• Owned architecture, interface set, and verification approach for a delivered capability or program scope.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical baseline: architecture, interface set, and verification approach for delivered configurations across the portfolio.
• Integrate systems you do not own: coordinate with base equipment, partner C2, government-furnished hardware, and Lattice SDK components.
• Own whether it works at the site: define verification, environmental qualification, and certify readiness for shipment.
• Carry the engineering position with the customer and in pursuits: translate requirements into scope and craft basis of estimate for proposals.
• Solve recurring problems across programs: define standards for deployment networking and configuration management.

Skills

Systems engineering

Fielded systems

Verification planning

Stakeholder negotiation

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Anduril Industries is helping redefine air defense with autonomous, software-enabled systems. We seek an engineering lead to own the technical baseline, architecture, and verification across the portfolio, coordinating with sensors, government-furnished equipment, and third-party integrations to ensure field readiness.

You will manage multiple deployment contexts, drive alignment with customers, and shape the technical content behind proposals, while steering improvements to prevent repeat field