Senior Systems Engineer – Autonomous Maritime AUVs (Equity)

Anduril Industries; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in the United States is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for the Maritime team to design and integrate subsystems for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and ensure performance meets specifications. You will coordinate with production, tooling, and engineering to drive robust verification and continuous improvement.

In this role you’ll lead requirements, manage configuration and interfaces, and support sea operations and proposals.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in systems engineering, integration & test, or platform architecture.
• Electromechanical hardware experience; able to troubleshoot across mechanical, electrical, and software boundaries.
• Demonstrated skill in root cause and corrective action methodologies.
• Software literacy: can read and analyze code (Rust, Python, or C), understand dependencies, and engage in systematic analysis.
• Experience working within requirements frameworks—with the judgment to adapt them and the discipline to justify changes.
• Strong cross‑functional collaborator: builds consensus, understands others’ processes, compromises between competing priorities.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills; brings structure to ambiguous, fast‑paced environments.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
• Ability to travel ~10%

Responsibilities

• Own cross‑functional coordination between the program and internal support groups (production, platform tooling).
• Establish and maintain configuration management practices for rapid iteration while keeping rigor.
• Lead requirements generation, analysis, and verification with balanced structure and speed.
• Drive qualification testing, DBT, integration verification, and acceptance testing activities.
• Perform root cause and corrective action analysis for issues found during integration and test; adjust manufacturing test procedures as needed.
• Maintain vehicle architecture documentation, interface definitions, and traceability across the product lifecycle.
• Work across business lines and product teams to build consensus and align on shared objectives.
• Support sea operations, strategic technical planning, risk management, and proposal efforts as needed.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Configuration management

Root cause analysis

Rust/Python/C knowledge

Security clearance eligible

Travel readiness

Tools

Python

Rust

C

MATLAB

SQL

Job description

Anduril Industries in the United States is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for the Maritime team to design and integrate subsystems for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and ensure performance meets specifications. You will coordinate with production, tooling, and engineering to drive robust verification and continuous improvement.

In this role you’ll lead requirements, manage configuration and interfaces, and support sea operations and proposals.