Senior Systems Engineer, Maritime

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to architect, deliver, and evolve complex robotic capabilities across the full product life-cycle. You will own customer-deployed technology solutions and act as SME for hardware, testing, perception, and cybersecurity, delivering value in a multi-stakeholder environment.

The role emphasizes holistic system ownership, mentoring junior engineers, and driving reusable components; travel up to 20% is required as you collaborate with end-users

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in robotics, mechatronics, CS, or engineering (or equivalent).
• 8+ years of professional engineering experience across domains.
• Ability to own a complex system from design through delivery.
• Capable of mentoring junior engineers and building team cohesion.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own technology solutions deployed to customers, delivering end-user value.
• Act as an SME for hardware, testing, perception, cybersecurity, and integration.
• Balance end-user needs with constraints in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Design, architect, and implement integrated systems with evolution paths.
• Contribute to reusable components across Anduril product lines.
• Contribute to development processes for robotics systems, including testing and operation.
• Support manufacturing, testing, and deployment of vehicles and payloads.
• Travel to co-locate with end-users up to 20% of the time.
• Mentor engineers from diverse backgrounds within a multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Ownership

System integration

Stakeholder engagement

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering

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 JOB

At Anduril, we are developing unmanned systems for subsurface and other domains that will leverage unsupervised autonomy for the delivery of long endurance, multi-mission capability to our customers. These projects require Senior Systems Engineers with broad experience to drive the delivery a variety of software enabled hardware capabilities to our customers. A Senior Systems Engineer at Anduril must rapidly develop expertise in new domains in order to architect, design, deliver, support, and evolve next generation capabilities through the entire product life-cycle.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own technology solutions that are deployed to customers, focused on the delivery of value to the end-user
• Act as a subject matter expert for your areas of expertise as they relate to the delivery of Anduril’s technology capabilities, including areas such as hardware selection and integration, testing and evaluation, robotic perception, engineering process or cybersecurity
• Empathize with end-users and drive solutions that balance their needs with external constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
• Design, architect, and implement integrated systems, including advanced and sensitive platforms and payloads, that rapidly delivers capability beyond the scope of current systems, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time
• Contribute to the design and development of technology components across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are re-usable across multiple Anduril product lines
• Contribute to the design, implementation and execution of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of complex robotic systems, including full lifecycle testing, monitoring and operation.
• Support vehicle and payload manufacturing, testing and deployment
• Travel to co-locate with end-users up to 20% of the time
• Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team, including as a mentor for engineers from differing backgrounds

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of professional experience working as an Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise
• Ability to exercise extremely high ownership over a complex system, including design, integration, test, and delivery of new capabilities
• Capacity to work holistically on complex robotic systems across design, implementation, operation and sustainment
• Capacity to act as the technical owner for a complex subsystem, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
• Capacity learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with the design, implementation and support of robotic and/or autonomous systems
• Experience working within the defense, maritime and/or aerospace domains
• Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment
• Desire to learn and grow in to other roles that require experience as a Senior Systems Engineer, such as Principal Systems Engineer and/or Engineering Manager
• Desire to grow in to a Tech-Lead-Manager role, with responsibility for line management of engineers, in addition to delivery

US Salary Range

$166,000—$220,000 USD

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:

Benefits

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. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.