This role pays more than
93%
of similar roles. Most pay
$146,900–$215,500
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$256k
versus about
$181k
for comparable roles.
Based on 239 similar postings.
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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
1697 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$146,000–$194,000
across 1504 roles with salary data.
Mission Systems Lead - Thunder joins the Maneuver Dominance team to lead the technical development and integration of mission systems for the Thunder autonomous tilt-rotor platform. This role involves overseeing payload and weapon system integration, managing hardware selection, and driving architecture design for robotic mission systems. The position requires coordinating with internal teams and third-party vendors to ensure requirements traceability and compliance with standards like MOSA/WOSA, STANAG 4586, MIL-STD-1760, and MIL-STD-1553. Key responsibilities include defining interface control documents, overseeing software development for on- and off-platform systems, and managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in Python, C++, or Rust, along with experience in high-assurance safety-critical software, modeling and simulation, and the product delivery lifecycle. This role addresses the challenge of creating a runway-independent, uncrewed platform capable of operating in contested environments.
Robotics
Mechatronics
Modeling and Simulation
Hardware-in-the-loop
System Engineering
Data Structures
Algorithms
Concurrency
Optimization
Service Orchestration
VTOL
Rotorcraft
Tiltrotor
Requirements Engineering
Technical Project Management
Flight Test Planning
MIL-HDBK-516C
SORA
SAIL
Part 27
SC-VTOL
Autonomous Systems