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Anduril

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
Costa MesaCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Business Operations
Posted
Sep 8, 2026
Salary
$220,000–$292,000 a year
Full-time

Mission Systems Lead - Thunder

Job description

ABOUT THE TEAM The Maneuver Dominance team is building Thunder - an autonomous attack rotorcraft built to fight alongside crewed combat aviation to deliver overwhelming mass effects deep beyond the front lines. The team in London builds the Mission System and the autonomy that makes aircraft like Thunder work. Autonomy is only as good as the link that carries it. Thunder is a compact airframe with weapons, sensors and radios competing for the same antenna real estate, flying low and in formation, in a spectrum that is actively contested. That is the problem you would own. ABOUT THE JOB Anduril is seeking an engineering leader to join the Maneuver Dominance team at our Costa Mesa HQ.

Job responsibilities

  • Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system for a new Maneuver Dominance platform.
  • Partner with the Vehicle Software team that is responsible for core sensor, actuator, and vehicle system functionality. Collaborate on interfacing requirements between Vehicle Management System and Mission System stacks.
  • Oversee payload system integration with the host vehicle mission system stack.
  • Oversee weapon system integration, including compliance with applicable munitions/range safety and export control requirements.
  • Drive architecture selection and design for robotic mission systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture, with explicit consideration of modular open systems approaches (MOSA/WOSA),…
  • Own the mission system’s interoperability and open-architecture posture, including compliance with MOSA/WOSA principles, STANAG 4586/4671 (UAS control and airworthiness interoperability), and AEDP/AGRA-aligned…
  • Define and own the payload/weapon interface control documents (ICDs) governing MIL-STD-1760 (aircraft/store electrical interconnection) and MIL-STD-1553 (data bus) integration between the mission system and third-party…
  • Partner with airworthiness/certification stakeholders to ensure mission system design supports Thunder’s path to airworthiness approval (e.g., MOSA-based airworthiness/AGRA-style genealogy tracking, safety case…

Job requirements

  • Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system
  • Experience managing engineering teams (many direct reports) within a high performing technology organization
  • 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 Python and modern systems/application programming languages (e.g., C++, Rust)
  • Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software
  • Experience developing comprehensive unit, integration, and regression test suites
  • Deep understanding of weapon and payload integration for autonomous systems, across commercial and military mission sets
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