Autonomy Lead
Job Location:
Costa Mesa, CA - USA
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Job Summary
ABOUT THE TEAM
Andurils Maritime Division is responsible for planning and executing Andurils product and revenue roadmap for maritime missions. Working across product engineering business development logistics and operations the Maritime team develops tests deploys and sustains the Anduril maritime capabilities in a challenging operational environment worldwide. As a leader in the Maritime Division you must be a technical leader with the expertise to evaluate qualify manage and advocate for an increasing number of sophisticated parallel pursuits. This role is crucial in ensuring that each initiative aligns with the companys strategic direction and receives the appropriate resourcing balancing innovation with practical execution to drive the business lines success.
ABOUT THE JOB
You will own the Autonomy software stack within Mission Systems for a maritime autonomous vehicle owning the software that enables autonomous mission execution. Reporting to the Mission Systems Lead you will cover system design mission planning mission operations perception debrief and software development infrastructure. You will define how the vehicle plans executes perceives and learns from missions autonomously across long ranges of open ocean beyond line of sight.
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. The ability to leverage your intuition and prior experience will be key in making sure the right design analysis and test steps are completed to ensure success. The ideal candidate will leverage their experience executing and successfully completing prior highly optimized multi-disciplinary projects.
WHAT YOULL DO
- Own the autonomy software architecture: planning execution perception and debrief
- Drive design of mission planning systems for autonomous maritime operations
- Drive mission execution software that manages vehicle behavior during missions
- Own perception systems that enable the vehicle to sense and interpret its environment
- Develop mission debrief capabilities for post-mission analysis and continuous improvement
- Build and maintain software development infrastructure (CI/CD simulation SITL/HITL)
- Define interfaces between autonomy stack and vehicle management system
- Manage autonomy deliverables across development phases
- Provide technical mentorship to software and systems engineers
- Drive development of test and simulation fixtures for autonomy validation
- Represent the autonomy subsystem in technical and customer meetings
- Interface with Mission Systems Lead and Vehicle Systems on integration
- Travel up to 25% to test sites and customer locations
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Robotics Aerospace Engineering or equivalent
- 5 years of experience in autonomous systems robotics or AI/ML
- Experience delivering software through full product development cycles
- Demonstrated experience with autonomous navigation planning or perception systems
- Experience with modeling simulation and SITL/HITL testing
- Experience developing safety-critical or high-assurance software
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with maritime autonomous systems (AUV UUV USV)
- Working knowledge of ROS behavior trees or mission planning frameworks
- Experience with computer vision sonar processing or undersea perception
- Familiarity with distributed software architectures and edge computing
- Prior experience in defense or government programs
US Salary Range
$253000 - $336000 USD
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:
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