Principal Solution Architect - ArsenalOS

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.

ABOUT THE TEAM:

The Business Systems team is responsible for building and improving the many systems and internal technologies that enables Anduril to accomplish its mission. Anduril’s supply chain, accounting, sales & growth, field maintenance, manufacturing, and many more teams rely on the technology built and maintained by us. We work across the company to ensure we have the tools and capabilities necessary for mission success. 

ABOUT THE JOB:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Solutions Architect to join our team. This will be a unique role, as it’s purpose is to intentionally cross the boundaries of the many teams within Business Systems and the broader Corporate Technology (CIO) department to help prevent siloed thinking and building point solutions across the broader hardware development lifecycle. You will be working with the Business Systems teams that own solution development for specific domains like Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, etc. to help them “connect the dots” and integrate their respective roadmaps to ensure we are meeting the needs not just of those teams’ immediate stakeholders, but also for the broader business. You will champion critical “substrates” that span all domains, like traceability, faster feedback loops, change management, product maturity, and digital threads.

WHAT YOU"LL DO:

• Take ownership of complex projects that span multiple domains/systems that require a single threaded leader to organize and drive
• Assist domain-focused teams as they develop solutions by helping them understand 2nd and 3rd order consequences of their decisions and help them evolve their products to serve additional use cases
• Be a “voice of the other customers” within domain-specific reviews to articulate what the needs are for teams who aren’t immediately executing workflows but reliant on the data/outcomes of those workflows
• Infuse teams with domain expertise based on your experiences with the hardware development lifecycle, with a focus on traceability, process maturity, and change management
• Partner with other solution architects within CorpTech to enable stronger end-to-end thinking inclusive of impacts to finance, accounting, sales, and other domains that are not directly a part of the product development lifecycle but highly intertwined with it
• Work with business partnership leadership to help them understand how Anduril’s internal tech stack is iterating and evolving to serve the needs across domains
• Maintain a deep understanding of emerging trends and best practices, help domain teams identify and select solutions (both buy and build) that will support Anduril’s continued efforts at scaled production for years into the future

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• 10+ years of experience with software solutions that span the hardware development lifecycle (PLM, CAD, CAM, Requirements Management, SysML, ERP, MES, QMS, MRO, etc.) at manufacturing companies (Aerospace, Defense, Automotive preferred) to help solve companies’ scaled production challenges
• Expertise on the domains involved in the hardware development lifecycle (Sys Eng, Design Eng, Configuration Management, Manufacturing, Planning, Supply Chain, Sustainment, Quality) and their processes and workflows, and how those translate to capabilities within previously mentioned systems
• Strong understanding of the importance of digital threads, enterprise change management, traceability, and how the various domains involved in the hardware development lifecycle interact with each other and depend on each other’s workflows and data
• Proven track record of leading complex system-centric projects from conception to completion.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Ability to work at an extremely fast-paced startup where decisions must be made quickly and correctly
• Ability to decompose complicated problems into tangible step-by-step efforts, with