Mission Systems Lead

Anduril Industries

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Work type
On-site
Location
Costa Mesa, CA
Salary
$191,000–$253,000 / yr
Posted
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This role $222k
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This role pays more than 90% of similar roles. Most pay $150,000–$193,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $222k versus about $172k for comparable roles.

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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.

Anduril Industries currently has 1882 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $146,000–$194,000 across 1696 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Mission Systems Lead

As the Mission Systems Lead at Anduril's Maneuver Dominance team, you will lead the technical development and integration of vehicle systems for a new Maneuver Dominance platform from concept to delivery, ensuring alignment with customer needs and strategic direction. You will collaborate closely with program leadership, other product teams, and third-party vendors to develop designs that are traceable to technical decisions made by the program office. Your responsibilities include driving architecture selection and design for robotic mission systems, contributing to a company-wide roadmap for mission system integration, and implementing development processes for full lifecycle testing. This role requires expertise in autonomous weapons systems, vehicle management systems, Python, MATLAB, and unit test development, as well as the ability to act as the technical owner of an entire mission system, managing stakeholders, requirements, and team coordination across diverse operational environments.

What you'll do

  • Own the technical development and delivery of mission systems for new Maneuver Dominance platforms.
  • Collaborate on interfacing requirements between Vehicle Management System and Mission System stacks.
  • Drive architecture selection and design for robotic mission systems, including hardware and software platform concerns.
  • Contribute to the company-wide roadmap for integrating mission systems into Maneuver Dominance platforms.
  • Implement development processes for initial delivery and iterative improvement of mission software.
  • Engage with end-users and other teams through travel up to 25% of the time.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of operational experience with autonomous Maneuver Dominance systems.
  • Deep understanding of autonomous weapons systems, including payload capabilities and mission sets.
  • Experience with Python and MATLAB for development and testing.
  • Systems programming skills in algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and optimization.
  • Ability to act as the technical owner for an entire mission system, managing stakeholders and requirements.
  • Familiarity with vehicle management systems and integration of mission software.
  • Secret security clearance required.

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