Senior Systems Engineer – Maritime Autonomy & AUVs

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Top-tier benefits

Health benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for the Maritime team to help design and integrate subsystems for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). You will collaborate with leadership and cross‑functional teams to ensure performance meets specs and standards, shaping the next generation of underwater autonomy.

You will lead requirements, verification, and integration efforts, maintain architecture documentation, and support sea operations and strategic planning.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in systems engineering, integration & test, or platform architecture.
• Electromechanical hardware experience; 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 with rigor.
• Lead requirements generation, analysis, and verification with balance of structure and speed.
• Drive qualification testing, DBT, integration verification, and acceptance testing activities.
• Perform root cause and corrective action analysis for issues 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

Cross-functional collaboration

Root cause analysis

Software literacy

Requirements management

Security clearance eligible

Travel 10%

Tools

Python

MATLAB

R

SQL

JAMA

Linux

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for the Maritime team to help design and integrate subsystems for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). You will collaborate with leadership and cross‑functional teams to ensure performance meets specs and standards, shaping the next generation of underwater autonomy.

You will lead requirements, verification, and integration efforts, maintain architecture documentation, and support sea operations and strategic planning.