Staff Systems Engineer, Maritime

Anduril Industries; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Staff Systems Engineer to lead the technical strategy for the Anduril Maritime line, aligning hardware and software for Navy missions, pre‑award to full‑rate production. You will guide a multi‑disciplinary team across proposals, design reviews, and test to deliver autonomous underwater vehicle systems.

The role requires strong systems engineering, government program experience, and clear communication with leadership and customers.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting, developing, and delivering defense/military maritime hardware and software systems.
• Ability to decompose complex systems into executable requirements to meet government expectations.
• Experience with qualification and acceptance testing standards.
• Experience with US government maritime mission areas and CONOPS.
• Design and development of mission solutions including AUVs and payloads.
• Strong technical communication to leadership, peers, and customers.
• Strong fundamentals in maritime systems, ashore infrastructure, and supporting equipment.
• Technical experience leading US Government contracts.
• TS/SCI eligibility.
• Active TS/SCI eligibility; weapons safety/process experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise across multiple AUV subsystems to advance product capabilities.
• Leverage strategic partnerships to build out new products for mission areas.
• Provide maritime industry expertise to refine business strategy and capture.
• Contribute technical inputs to proposals and engineering execution plans.
• Manage generation, maintenance, and validation of full system requirements.
• Oversee a multi‑disciplinary team through all program phases to delivery and operation.

Skills

Maritime hardware & software systems

Requirements decomposition

Qualification testing standards

US government contracts

Technical communication

TS/SCI eligible

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.

The Staff Systems Engineer will develop a technical strategy and roadmap in conjunction with the Chief Engineer and the Growth/Strategy leads of Anduril Maritime that effectively leverages current Anduril technologies and newly developed technologies to serve military customer mission areas. This role will address pre‑award demonstrations, early contract phases, and full‑contract execution up to and including full‑rate production. The Staff Systems Engineer, working with a multi‑disciplinary engineering team, will ensure the efficient development and delivery of hardware and software solutions for the military customer.

These efforts will include leading design of complex, integrated systems for subsea operations and demonstrations, including coordinated efforts with sub‑contracted teammates and strategic partnerships. The Staff Systems Engineer will need to facilitate effective technical development and integration that spans company‑boundaries in an agile development approach in the context of a continuous integration/continuous deployment paradigm. They will need to balance development of new capabilities with the incorporation of several pre‑existing capabilities and need to effectively communicate the development status to customers.

The Staff Systems Engineer will be responsible for technical oversight of all aspects of program execution from proposals to SRR, PDR, CDR, MRR, TRR, assembly, qualification testing, and delivery of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) systems. The Staff Systems Engineer in conjunction with the Chief Engineer will assist in building out the necessary infrastructure for Anduril to execute on all necessary aspects of vehicle and payload build and test to include working with external vendors for establishing test requirements and pass/fail criteria.

What You’ll Do

• Provide technical expertise across multiple AUV subsystems, including core vehicle mechanical, electrical and software, to advance Anduril Maritime product capabilities for US
• Leverage strategic partnerships and teammates for building out new products to satisfy customer requirements in new and challenging mission areas
• Provide maritime industry expertise to refine and advance the Anduril Maritime business line and PoR capture strategy
• Contribute technical inputs to proposals, including engineering execution plans
• Manage the generation, maintenance and validation of full system requirements
• Provide oversight to a multi‑disciplinary team of engineers through all phases of program execution up to and including delivery and operation of capabilities
• Perform mission and system level trade studies and analysis to balance risk, cost, and performance.

Required Qualifications

• Experience architecting, developing, and delivering defense/IC maritime hardware and software systems
• Demonstrated ability to decompose complex systems with competing objectives (e.g., performance, schedule, modularity, cybersecurity, MLS) into executable requirements, then delivering on those to meet government expectations
• Experience with standards for qualification testing and acceptance testing
• Experience with US government maritime mission areas and associated CONOPS for successfully executing missions to enable the warfighter
• Design and development of detailed mission solutions (including AUVs and payloads) to complex maritime domain challenges
• Strong technical communication skills, providing the ability to deliver critical technical briefings and conclusions to technical leadership, company leadership, and customers
• Strong technical fundamentals in maritime systems, ashore infrastructure, support equipment, and product development.
• Technical experience leading US Government contracts.
• TS/SCI Eligible

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Eligibility for TS/SCI
• Weapons Safety Evaluation Review Board process experience

US Salary Range

$191,000-253,000 USD

Benefits

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:

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.

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