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About Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that builds advanced hardware and software systems for national security, including autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and the Lattice AI command platform.
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JOB TITLE: Chief Engineer, Autonomous Flight
The Chief Engineer, Autonomous Flight joins the Air Dominance & Strike team to lead the technical architecture and system-level design of onboard autonomy stacks, command and control systems, and modular payloads for next-generation autonomous platforms. This role involves guiding multi-disciplinary engineering teams through the full lifecycle of software-heavy robotics systems, from initial design to deployment. Key responsibilities include requirements decomposition, hardware/software integration, and overseeing testing across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and field environments. The position requires expertise in robotics software architectures, tactical mission systems, and motion planning. Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in perception, task allocation, SLAM, and tactical networking to solve complex problems for multi-domain unmanned systems, including unmanned fighter jets and air-breathing cruise missiles, while ensuring seamless algorithm execution on physical platforms.
Autonomous Driving
Machine Learning
Foundation Models
Robotics
Embodied AI
Generative AI
CUDA
GPU Computing
VLA Frameworks
Planning
Control
Perception
Accelerated Computing
Production Systems
Python
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
C
Distributed Systems
AI Infrastructure
LLM
Streaming
Observability
Data Governance
Security
Human-in-the-loop
RLE
Telemetry