Chief Engineer, Autonomous Flight
Job Location:
Seattle, WA - USA
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Job Summary
About the Job
The Air Dominance & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial and multi-domain robotic systems. The teamis responsible fortaking products like Fury (unmanned fighter jet) and Barracuda (air-breathing cruise missile) from concept to product. The team also develops Lattice for Mission Autonomy Andurils premier software platform that enables masses of Fury Barracuda and other first andthird-partyrobots to collaborate across various missions. We work in close coordination with specialist teams like Perception Motion Planning Hardware and Test Engineering to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers.
As a Chief Engineer you will own the technical architecture and system-level design of the onboard autonomy stack command and control systems and modular payloads for our next-generation autonomous a software heavy focus you will guide lean multi-disciplinary engineering teams from 0-to-1 design through deployment bridging the gap between high-level business strategy and rigorous engineering execution.
What Youll Do:
- Lead systems engineering requirements decomposition and technical architecture for software-heavy robotics systems.
- Guide small fast-moving groups of individual contributors through the design implementation and deployment phases of emerging programs.
- Oversee hardware/software integration and testing (simulation hardware-in-the-loop and field testing) to ensureperception motion planning and task allocation algorithms run seamlessly on physical platforms.
- Partner with Product Managers and Business Development to convert customer mission needs and operational concepts into concrete technical milestones.
- Decide technical trade-offs across concurrent programs helping teams prioritize engineering efforts.
Required Qualifications:
- Proventrack recorddirecting technical architecture and guiding individual contributors as alead engineer
- Background in developing and fielding software-heavy robotics autonomous systems or aerospace products.
- Strong hardware/software integration skills including robotics software architectures and tactical mission systems.
- Experience withautonomous systems mission-criticalDepartment of Defensesystemsor tactical edge technologies.
- Travel:Ability to travel up to 25% to customer sites andfield testinglocations.
- Education:BS MS or PhD in Robotics Aerospace ME EE CS or equivalent.
- Security Clearance:Eligible to obtain andmaintainan active U.S. Secretclearan
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced knowledge in Motion Planning Perception Command & Control SLAM task allocation or tactical networking.
- Work history involving multi-domain unmanned systems (air ground or maritime).
- Understanding of edge-AI/ML deployment on autonomous physical systems.
US Salary Range
$220000 - $330000 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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