Chief Engineer

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 lead the technical development and integration as Chief Engineer 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 engineering solutions 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. 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

• Support early architecture definition and scoping for a new product defining the technical approach key requirements and prototype design
• Support the build out of development timelines with associated milestones and staffing needs
• Work directly with the product team (Product Manager EPM Lead Systems Engineer) to ensure tactical development is executed on plan
• Accountable for technical decisions and developments on the AUV
• Perform initial system trades and studies on key functions such as energy storage vehicle control volume and mass budget creation and payload capacity
• Lead a new team within Anduril Maritime working on development and prototyping of a new platform; defining key performance parameters and requirements and supporting SRR PDR and CDR
• Work closely with functional leads to drive common approaches for technical development and process
• Responsible for root cause corrective action process as well as case-by-case execution and implementation. Have high ownership over the reliability and lifetime performance of the AUV product and family
• Technical point of contact for IRADs on AUV consulting or delegating as required to appropriate leads
• Identify opportunities for Division collaboration and commonality in design and processes
• Key stakeholder for technical feasibility/impact in proposed work or capability insertion

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Deep understanding of ocean-going craft systems engineering product development and overall engineering process
• Experience in a senior role leading maritime programs from initial concept through test and delivery to customers
• Strong understanding of the why behind vehicle and systems design
• Experience working on mission-critical DoD systems
• Proven history of delivery when presented with open-ended problems balancing technical analysis with test and validation to move rapidly through new production design
• Experience creating teams and focusing them around a common vision leading by example and embodying high-ownership over the problem and the technical solution
• Bachelors degree in Marine Mechanical Electrical or Software engineering or equivalent experience in a relevant field
• Willingness to Travel 25% to customer and test sites
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

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:

Benefits

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