- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- QuincyMassachusettsUSA
- Job type
- Artificial Intelligence
- Posted
- Jul 29, 2026
Mission Systems Lead, Seabed Sentry
Job description
We are looking for a Lead Mission Systems Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing Maritime team in Boston or Quincy, MA. In this role, you will design and develop the core decision-making and autonomy software that powers our autonomous underwater vehicles. You will lead the architecture, implementation, and deployment of the logic that enables these systems to understand their environment, navigate safely, respond to obstacles or threats, and execute complex missions with limited human involvement.
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.
Anduril is fielding the next generation of…
Job responsibilities
- Act as a technical leader owning software for Seabed Sentry Draw on both your technical expertise and leadership skills to set objectives, build cross-functional teams, and rapidly drive projects to completion
- Manage and develop a small team (3-4 employees initially), setting priorities, delegating work effectively, and providing coaching and mentorship to support individual growth and long-term career success
- Drive the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of payloads and mission systems
- Act as the technical owner for an entire mission system, including stakeholder and customer engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
- Organize integration events, scoping key deliverables and impact to broader program
- Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system
- Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time
- Generate system solutions to improve reliability, ease-of-use, and capability across a variety of customer missions
Job requirements
- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Robotics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
- System architecture experience
- Hands-on experience developing software for embedded and physical devices
- Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization
- 6+ years of professional C++ or Rust programming experience in a Linux development environment
- Experience with NixOS
- Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
- Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures, running under dynamic network topologies
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