Senior Software Engineering Manager, Simulation Platforms
Job Location:
Columbia, SC - USA
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Job Summary
About the Team
The Air Dominance & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial and multi-domain robotic systems. The team is responsible for taking 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 and third party robots 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.
This team builds high-fidelity simulation platforms used to evaluate advanced aerospace and mission systems in realistic contested environments. The team develops digital models and modern parametric simulators thatrepresentsophisticated adversary behaviors providing rapid iteration cycles for testing and training.
The long-term focus is to modernize legacy monolithic simulation frameworks transitioning them toward modern modular architectures with stable APIs robust versioning and automated testing. This work involves a mix of software systems engineering real-time simulation and API design with a direct impact on how next-generation defense platforms are evaluated.
Responsibilities
- Grow mentor and scale the engineering team significantly fostering a high-performance culture
- Partner closely with the Chief Engineer to define the technical direction modernize simulation architectures into modular systems and own successful project execution.
- Maintain and build strong relationships with key stakeholders across government-owned simulation environments and defense funding acquisition and innovation agencies.
- Partner with business development teams to identify new opportunities evaluate technical feasibility and lead the technical writing of proposals to expand the teams footprint.
Required Qualifications
- Active U.S. Top Secret (TS) security clearance.
- 5 years of experience managing software engineering teams with a proven track record of hiring scaling and developing talent.
- 5 years of hands-on software development experience with a strong understanding of complex systems architecture API design and modern software engineering practices.
- Experience developing deploying and testing software within secure classified or air-gapped environments.
- Experience partnering with business development teams writing technical proposals or helping scope engineering work for government contracts.
- Proven ability to manage customer expectations and negotiate technical delivery paths when stakeholders have competing priorities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience in modeling and simulation within the defense sector particularly with federating multiple simulators together.
- Familiarity with translating intelligence assessments of adversary capabilities into high-fidelity modeled software environments.
- Familiarity with modern defense acquisition test and innovation organizations (such as AFLCMC TRMC or DIU).
- A desire to remain close to the technology with the ability to participate in high-level system design reviews and evaluate architectural decisions.
US Salary Range
$220000 - $292000 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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