Mission Systems Lead

Anduril Industries, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Costa Mesa, California, United States

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system for a new maritime platform.
• Partner with the Vehicle Software team to define and interface requirements between the Vehicle Management System and Mission System stacks.
• Drive architecture selection and design for robotic mission systems, including hardware, compute, storage, network architecture, and service orchestration under multi-stakeholder constraints.
• Contribute to the company-wide roadmap for mission system integration into maritime platforms, including necessary software inputs.
• Lead teams developing software that runs on- and off-platform using a variety of technologies.
• Drive the design and implementation of development processes for initial delivery and iterative updates of mission software, including full lifecycle testing.
• Create test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software- and hardware-in-the-loop.
• Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment activities.
• Lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams and mentor Senior Software Engineers from diverse technical backgrounds.
• Leverage internal product and program engineering teams to deliver capabilities beyond current platforms with clear paths for architecture and capability evolution.
• Travel up to 25% of the time to co-locate with end-users or other teams.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system
• Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures, running under dynamic network topologies
• Experience with modeling and simulation
• Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software
• Experience with development of comprehensive unit test and regression
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants included in full-time offers
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
• Top-tier benefits for health, recovery, and personal well-being
• Salary range of $253,000–$336,000 USD (base only)

Skills & Technologies

Senior

Remote

Degree Required

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About Anduril Industries, Inc.

Anduril Industries is an American defense technology company that develops autonomous systems, sensor networks, and command-and-control software for military and homeland-security applications. Founded in 2017, it designs unmanned aerial vehicles, counter-drone systems, undersea vehicles, and AI-powered surveillance towers, integrating them into a unified operating system called Lattice. The company focuses on rapid hardware-software iteration, open-architecture platforms, and direct contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and allied governments to address emerging threats across land, sea, air, and cyber domains.

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