Chief Solutions Engineer

The Anduril Labs team as part of the corporate Strategic Growth organization is a selectively manned group of experienced core technology and military product development experts. The labs team creates product solutions to secure competitive advantage through unique technically excellent and affordable insights.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Initiate and sustain executive-level engagements with existing and prospective customers and lead the response strategy for RFIs RFPs RFWPs and unsolicited proposals that position Anduril to win
• Lead technical and programmatic opportunities in the initial shaping capture and design stage of a strategic growth opportunity and support the end-to-end strategic growth process
• Develop and manage multi-business line collaborations to unlock use cases and markets for mature and emerging Anduril products with a focus on increased connectivity containerization and interoperability with customer command and control architectures
• Manage the detailed design of the system and subsystems including requirements development systems and subsystem trades and optimization risk management etc. to ensure the appropriate consideration of design key performance parameters schedule costs and risks in order to shape the growth opportunity
• Own the technical and programmatic success of strategic growth opportunities establish technical and programmatic vision assemble cross-functional teams of internal and external subject matter experts within the Anduril Divisions and communicate that vision to them.
• Set up trade analysis to enable the exploration of early conceptual designs while working closely with technical experts and strategic growth team to find the right solution to current and future gaps in the DoW capability to ensure the war-fighter has the best solution for current and future conflicts.
• Coordinate closely with manufacturing to ensure the fabrication of prototype and low-rate production articles are capable of expansion to full rate manufacturing
• Work with senior leadership to ensure resource plans are adequate for work scope.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in Aerospace Mechanical Electrical or Software engineering or equivalent experience in a relevant field
• Proven development and growth leader with prior experience in commercial or DoD Capture and Sales demonstrating a track record of shaping a capability from concept through funded prototyping or program of record start
• Familiarity with the full product lifecycle from concept and prototyping through fielding and sustainment and the ability to work across engineering capture and operations to move a new effort through it
• Demonstrated high-energy high-ownership leader who will drive performance and exhibit strong management skills with a high level of emotional intelligence. Must be able to work in a fast-paced highly entrepreneurial and creative environment and be able to build adapt and implement new and innovative approaches to market
• Excellent writing and communication skills with experience briefing 3-star customer stakeholders and C-suite internal stakeholders
• Demonstrated knowledge of relevant DoD / IC / Commercial programs platforms and payloads to include enabling technologies systems integration and software development
• Minimum of 10 years experience or relevant systems engineering and growth support
• Travel 25% to Customer and Test Sites
• Currentlypossessesandis able tomaintainan active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Masters degree in STEM / engineering or equivalent experience in a relevant field
• Experience with government business development government contract structures and government proposal processes
• Prior military or contracting experience or experience in DoD or Government
• Experience working on mission critical DoW systems
• Experience creating cross-functional teams and focusing them around a common vision

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:

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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