Senior Chief Engineer, Air Defense — Middle East Programs

Anduril Industries

Washington (District of Columbia)

On-site

USD 191,000 - 253,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Chief Engineer for Air Defense in the Middle East. You will own system architecture, integration strategy, fielding readiness, and sustainment outcomes across programs, coordinating with partners, primes, and government offices.

You’ll drive technical decisions that keep schedules aligned and ensure operational effectiveness in deployed sites. You will travel up to 50% of the year to field sites, lead technical reviews, and shape the engineering basis of estimates

Qualifications

Engineering, science, or other technical degree, or equivalent practical experience.
10+ years of systems or engineering experience, with a track record of technical ownership on fielded systems.
End-to-end technical accountability for whether a delivered system actually worked in an operational environment, not only for producing its design artifacts.
Experience integrating third-party and customer-furnished hardware and software into a system you were accountable for.
Ability to carry technical authority across teams that do not report to you, and to brief senior technical leadership and external customers directly.
Ability to define a verification approach for a full program scope, negotiate requirements and acceptance with a customer, and write a credible basis of estimate.
Willingness to travel up to 50% of the year, with Middle East travel the majority of it.
Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

Serve as Chief Engineer for Air Defense's Middle East programs. Own system architecture, integration strategy, fielding readiness, and sustainment outcomes across every program in the portfolio.
Define interfaces to partner radars and effectors, customer-furnished equipment, legacy command and control being displaced, and third-party systems the customer has already bought.
Own the engineering position in negotiations and write the basis of estimate that supports it.
Deploy to the region, work alongside operators and field service teams, and own technical performance in the field.
Represent Anduril's engineering position to partner nation ministries, program offices, primes, and authorization authorities.
Shape the technical content of pursuits as the regional pipeline expands faster than the delivered baseline.