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Salary: USD 191,000 - 253,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking. The Maritime Division is scaling at historic pace, anchored by Arsenal-2, a new software-defined shipyard in Baltimore County, Maryland, as part of a $6.6 billion investment in America's submarine industrial base. The Proto-Factory in Orange County, California serves as the prototyping hub, proving out advanced manufacturing methods, digital workflows, and quality systems.
You will own the Vehicle Management System (VMS) for a maritime autonomous vehicle, reporting to the Cognitive Systems Lead. The VMS is the supervisory software that monitors vehicle health, manages operational modes, responds to faults, and coordinates across all subsystems. Because the vehicle runs multi-day missions with no operator link, the VMS is the only decision-maker determining whether a degraded vehicle presses on, aborts, or surfaces—requiring logic that reasons about failures nobody will be awake to catch.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own VMS architecture: health monitoring, mode management, fault response
- Design vehicle state machines and operational mode transitions
- Develop fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR) logic
- Define VMS interfaces with guidance/navigation/control (GN&C), energy, communications, and mission systems
- Manage route planning and casualty monitoring functions
- Support software-in-the-loop (SITL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing of VMS behaviors
- Interface with all vehicle subsystem leads on integration
- Support at-sea testing and validation
- Travel up to 25% to test sites
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent
- 7+ years of experience in vehicle management systems, flight management, or supervisory control software
- Experience with real-time embedded software for vehicle platforms
- Familiarity with FDIR design and operational mode management
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance
- Experience setting up an integration lab
PREFERRED:
- Experience with AUV, UUV, or UAV management systems
- Working knowledge of safety-critical software design patterns
- Experience with C++ or Rust for embedded vehicle software
- Experience in defense or maritime robotics
- Experience conducting a test and validation campaign
