What are the responsibilities and job description for the Surface Program Chief Engineer, Maritime Division position at Anduril Industries?
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.
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.
You will lead the technical development of maritime products from concept to delivery. You will work closely with Anduril’s Strategy team and strategic opportunity customers to develop these designs so that requirements are tied to customer inputs and there is traceability to program office technical decisions.
Your spectrum of support will be diverse in nature and require you to leverage your technical expertise as well as leadership skills to set objectives, build cross-functional teams, and rapidly drive to completion. The ability to leverage your intuition and prior experience in programmatic level decision will play a key component in making sure the right design / analysis / and test steps are being completed to ensure success. The ideal candidate will leverage their experience executing and successfully completing prior highly optimized multi-disciplinary projects.
WHAT YOU'LL DO :
- Lead and manage the initial design, prototyping, capability verification, and delivery of a maritime autonomous weapon system.
- Manage the initial design of the system and subsystems including system architecture development, requirements definition, system and sub-system trades and optimization, risk management etc. to ensure the appropriate consideration of design key performance parameters, schedule, costs, and risks to shape the product.
- Perform systems engineering and trade analyses to enable the exploration and rapid iteration of early conceptual designs, while working closely with technical SME’s and strategic growth team to provide creative solutions to current and future gaps in the DOD capability. Ensure that the warfighter is provided with the best solution for current and future conflicts.
- Coordinate closely with manufacturing and supply chain teams to ensure design for manufacturing is embedded in early concepts and matured to support full rate production at scale. Drive product differentiation through manufacturing capability and novel manufacturing techniques.
- Work with senior leadership to ensure resource plans are adequate for work scope.
- Oversee technical execution of the generation of a new surface product for Anduril Maritime.
- Define key capabilities, milestones, and demonstrations to enable continuous development and maturation of autonomous systems.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS :
US Salary Range
182,000 - $273,000 USD
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 :
Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Anduril team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals, who together are disrupting industry norms by creating new paths towards the future of defense technology. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the CA Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. We actively encourage members of recognized minorities, women, Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply, and we work to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all applicants throughout the interview process. If you are someone passionate about working on problems that have a real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you!
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Salary : $182,000 - $273,000
