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Salary: USD 253,000 - 336,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. The Maritime Division develops, tests, deploys, and sustains Anduril's maritime capabilities worldwide, powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system for real-time command and control.
As Chief Engineer for a maritime product, you will lead technical development and integration from initial concept through delivery. You will work closely with program leadership, cross-functional teams, and third-party system vendors to develop engineering solutions with clear traceability to customer inputs and program office technical decisions.
Your role spans diverse technical and leadership responsibilities. You will support early architecture definition and scoping for new products, defining technical approach, key requirements, and prototype design. You will build out development timelines with associated milestones and staffing needs, working directly with the product team (Product Manager, EPM, Lead Systems Engineer) to ensure tactical development executes on plan.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading a new team within Anduril Maritime on development and prototyping of a new platform, defining key performance parameters and requirements
- Supporting System Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), and Critical Design Review (CDR)
- Performing initial system trades and studies on key functions such as energy storage, vehicle control, volume and mass budgets, and payload capacity
- Serving as the accountable technical decision-maker for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developments
- Managing root cause corrective action processes and owning reliability and lifetime performance of the AUV product family
- Serving as technical point of contact for Internal Research and Development (IRAD) initiatives on AUV systems
- Identifying opportunities for division collaboration and design/process commonality
- Acting as key stakeholder for technical feasibility assessment in proposed work or capability insertions
You will leverage your technical expertise and leadership skills to set objectives, build cross-functional teams, and drive rapid completion. The ideal candidate will have experience executing and successfully completing highly optimized multi-disciplinary projects, with the ability to balance technical analysis with test and validation to move rapidly through new production design.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Deep understanding of ocean-going craft, systems engineering, product development, and overall engineering process
- Experience in a senior role leading maritime programs from initial concept through test and delivery to customers
- Strong understanding of the "why" behind vehicle and systems design
- Experience working on mission-critical DoD systems
- Proven history of delivery when presented with open-ended problems, balancing technical analysis with test and validation
- Experience creating teams and focusing them around a common vision, leading by example with high ownership
- Bachelor's degree in Marine, Mechanical, Electrical, or Software Engineering, or equivalent experience in a relevant field
- Willingness to travel 25% to customer and test sites
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
