Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

Chief Engineer, Digital Infrastructure, AD&S

WHY WE'RE HERE

The Air Dominance and Strike Division is one of Anduril’s fastest growing divisions whose goal is to fundamentally reshape the way future peer to peer conflicts are fought by developing next generation software enabled collaborative air combat weapons. Our division develops, builds, and tests collaborative combat aircraft, missiles, and the software that powers these collaborative robots.

We are seeking a Chief Engineer that will be responsible for management of multiple active DoD contracts that fund the development and sustainment of the Digital Infrastructure and engineering workflows that support the engineering teams within Air Dominance & Strike. This Chief Engineer will be responsible for collaborating with other Anduril teams to define Air Dominance & Strike’s digital infrastructure strategy, will make direct contribution to each draft proposal response with Digital Infrastructure requirements (this is all of them), and will oversee resourcing, program management, and execution for all Digital Infrastructure contracts and contract line items. The ideal candidate has proven experience building and maintaining complex Digital Infrastructure across multiple security domains and supporting multiple engineering disciplines (both hardware and software).

As the Chief Engineer for Digital Infrastructure you are directly responsible for ensuring that each Air Dominance & Strike program is equipped with the information technology required to successfully execute. You will be directly responsible for the management of any contract exclusively funding the development and sustainment of Digital Infrastructure within Air Dominance & Strike. You must demonstrate a history of successfully supporting complex portfolios of programs each with their own milestone schedule. Success in this role will require you to be an effective manager and a helpful collaborator. You will directly manage a small team of program managers and engineers and will collaborate closely with many other Anduril engineering teams such as, Classified IT, Business Systems, Information Security, and Physical Security.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Specify the Digital Infrastructure required to support execution on each AD&S program.
• Manage the development, delivery, maintenance, and operations of Digital Infrastructure supporting AD&S programs.
• Ensure that all Digital Infrastructure contracted obligations are performed and related revenue captured.
• Define a Digital Infrastructure vision and supporting roadmap that creates a competitive advantage for AD&S during contract capture.
• Ensure that all outgoing AD&S proposals properly articulate the AD&S Digital Infrastructure strategy, capability, and opportunity.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience leading cross discipline software engineering teams executing across many disparate lines of effort in highly regulated industries.
• Demonstrated experience as a principal level individual contributor working with high performing software engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience automating complex engineering workflows and implementing robust change management and observability infrastructure.
• Strong ability to synthesize customer objectives into engineering outcomes.
• Ability to work in a functional matrix organization.
• Designed → Built → Delivered experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOD Top Secret clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience supporting digital infrastructure and proposal development that supports the United States Intelligence Community or Department of Defense.
• Willingness to travel frequently.

 

Role can sit in either Cosa Mesa, CA or Washington DC

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