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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.

At Anduril we are developing unmanned systems that will leverage unsupervised autonomy for the delivery of long endurance, multi-mission capability to our customers. These projects require Senior Systems Engineers with broad experience to drive the delivery a variety of software enabled hardware capabilities to our customers. Anduril Senior Systems Engineers rapidly develop expertise in new domains in order to architect, design, deliver, support, and evolve next generation capabilities through the entire product life-cycle.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Own technology solutions that are deployed to customers, focused on the delivery of value to the end-user.
  • Act as a subject matter expert for your areas of expertise as they relate to the delivery of Anduril’s technology capabilities, including areas such as hardware selection and integration, testing and evaluation, robotic perception, engineering process or cybersecurity.
  • Empathize with end-users and drive solutions that balance their needs with external constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment.
  • Design, architect, and implement integrated systems, including advanced and sensitive platforms and payloads, that rapidly delivers capability beyond the scope of current systems, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time.
  • Contribute to the design and development of technology components across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are re-usable across multiple Anduril product lines.
  • Contribute to the design, implementation and execution of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of complex robotic systems, including full lifecycle testing, monitoring and operation.
  • Support vehicle and payload manufacturing, testing and deployment.
  • Travel to co-locate with end-users up to 10-15% of the time.
  • Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team, including as a mentor for Engineers from differing backgrounds.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
  • Extensive professional experience working as an Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise.
  • Ability to exercise extremely high ownership over a complex system, including design, integration, test, and delivery of new capabilities.
  • Capacity to work holistically on complex robotic systems across design, implementation, operation and sustainment.
  • Capacity to act as the technical owner for a complex subsystem, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution.
  • Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity.
  • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a UK SC clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience with the design, implementation and support of robotic and/or autonomous systems.
  • Experience working within the defense, maritime and/or aerospace domains.
  • Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.
  • Desire to learn and grow into other roles that require experience as a Senior Systems Engineer, such as Principal Systems Engineer and/or Engineering Manager.
  • Desire to grow into a Tech-Lead-Manager role, with responsibility for line management of engineers, in addition to delivery.
  • Familiarisation with clearing Effectors from UK Rotary-wing Platforms.

Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer, and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If you are someone passionate to work on problems that matter, we’d love to hear from you!

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