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Anduril

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
Costa MesaCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Jul 29, 2026
Salary
$292,000–$386,000 a year
Full-time

Mission Systems Lead

Job description

You will lead the technical development and integration of mission systems for a maritime product, from initial concept through delivery. You will work closely with program leadership, teams from other Anduril products, and third party system vendors 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.

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S.

Job responsibilities

  • Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system for a new maritime platform.
  • Partner with the Vehicle Software team that is responsible for core sensor, actuator, and vehicle system functionality.
  • Drive architecture selection and design for robotic mission systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture.
  • Contribute to the design and development of a company-wide roadmap for mission system integration into maritime platforms, including necessary software inputs.
  • Lead teams that develop software that runs on- and off- platform, using a variety of technologies.
  • Drive the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of mission software, including full lifecycle testing.
  • Drive the creation of test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software- and hardware-in-the-loop
  • Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment.

Job requirements

  • Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system
  • Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures, running under dynamic network topologies
  • Experience with modeling and simulation
  • Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software
  • Experience with development of comprehensive unit test and regression
  • Deep understanding of autonomous weapons systems, inclusive of payload capabilities and both commercial and military mission sets
  • Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment
  • Familiarity with vehicle management systems

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