Support Systems Lead, Seabed Sentry

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

Job summary

Slope is seeking a highly skilled leader for the Maritime Division in Quincy, Massachusetts. This role involves directing the technical development of support systems for maritime products, ensuring customer needs are met through collaboration and strategic planning.

Candidates should possess a strong understanding of maritime systems and logistics, as well as leadership capabilities to cultivate a diverse team. The position offers an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of autonomous systems.

Qualifications

• Experience working in logistics, support, and maintenance roles.
• Experience with maritime craft, commercial or defense.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and sustainment of a holistic Support System.
• Hire and develop a multidisciplinary Support System team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design systems based on feedback.
• Manage plans for maintenance and support of deployed assets.
• Work with operators for hands-on experience.
• Develop customer training and curriculum.
• Manage equipment logistics and requirements.
• Ensure integration of system elements.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic Planning

Collaborative

Logistics and Support Management

Technical Proficiency in Maritime Systems

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Marine Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering

Job description

About the Team

Anduril's Maritime Division is responsible for planning and executing Anduril's product and revenue roadmap for maritime missions. Working across product, engineering, business development, logistics, and operations, the Maritime team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril maritime capabilities in a challenging operational environment worldwide. As a leader in the Maritime Division, you must be a technical leader with the expertise to evaluate, qualify, manage, and advocate for an increasing number of sophisticated parallel pursuits. This role is crucial in ensuring that each initiative aligns with the company's strategic direction and receives the appropriate resourcing, balancing innovation with practical execution to drive the business line's success.

About the Job

You will lead the technical development of a holistic support system for service, maintenance, support, and production of maritime products. As an early performer on a new Maritime product, you will be challenged to rethink the possible as you envision and implement methodology to support large fleets of autonomous systems at the speed of relevance. You will work closely with Anduril’s Strategy team and strategic opportunity customers to develop this approach, to ensure that requirements are tied to customer inputs and there is traceability to program office technical decisions.

What You'll Do

• Plan, coordinate, and lead the development and sustainment of a holistic Support System (including production, launch, depot and field maintenance, training, and everything in between)
• Hire, develop, and grow a multidisciplinary Support System team (Technicians, Engineers, Technical Writers, Trainers etc) to provide world‑class training, logistics and support.
• Collaborate with customer stakeholders on a comprehensive concept of employment to ensure needs are met and customer inputs are used to influence the design of other systems to align with expected methods for employment
• Manage a cohesive plan to support deployed assets, inclusive of identifying critical infrastructure requirements such as maintenance depots, test sites, etc.
• Work directly with operators to gain hands‑on experience using our equipment, and assist in the scoping and design of future support infrastructure.
• Develop a strategy for customer training and train‑the‑trainer curriculum, including planning approach to training in a modern tech product environment.
• Manage requirements for fielded system support equipment, including handling equipment, shipping and logistics equipment, shoreside C2 systems, host vessels, and remote tasking and monitoring equipment.
• Own critical interfaces with other system elements and work closely within the team to deliver a tightly integrated end‑to‑end system capability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Marine Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering, or proven experience in a relevant field.
• Experience working in logistics, support, maintenance, or training management roles and familiarity with support of fielded systems in the control of customers.
• Experience working on and in service of maritime craft, either commercial or defense focused, and an innate understanding of the requirements to support a robotic systems at sea.
• Be an experienced leader with the depth and breadth of leadership capability who enables and empowers their people.
• Be able to think strategically and plan long term but also to be in the detail, act tactically when required and to simplify the complex.
• Strong bias to action and an affective decision maker who is able to operate in a fast paced environment.
• Be personally resilient and self starting; ability to build from the ground up in a highly dynamic and innovative environment.
• Be highly collaborative with the ability to work with both internal and external stakeholders, challenging constructively where necessary.
• Exercise extremely high ownership; take significant pride in the quality and efficacy of your work.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Security clearance.
• Travel 25% to Customer and Test Sites.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated understanding of multi-domain unmanned and autonomous weapon system development and employment.
• Demonstrated engineering management capability; proven technical and personnel leadership qualities.
• Strong understanding of reliability, autonomous system architectures, and overall design approach for unmanned weapons systems.
• Experience building and managing cross functional teams focused around a common vision.

Salary Range

$191,000 – $253,000 USD