Head of Software AD&S

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.

Do you want to lead software development for Anduril's autonomous fighter jets and swarming missiles vehicle portfolio? These are first of their kind air vehicles and could someday be in the Smithsonian.

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 autonomous air vehicles. Our division develops, builds, and tests collaborative combat aircraft, missiles, and the software that powers these collaborative weapons.

We are seeking the Head of Software to be responsible for all software development teams within Anduril’s Air Dominance and Strike Division. Air Dominance and Strike is responsible for the development, delivery, and sustained operations of Anduril’s autonomy software that runs onboard robotic air vehicles and enables collaborative mission execution. The ideal candidate has proven experience leading complex autonomous vehicle software system development at scale.

As Head of Software for AD&S you will directly manage a team of Software Leaders and Engineers supporting successful execution across a portfolio of contracts and will collaborate closely with Anduril’s product management organization to inform the Lattice technology development roadmap. In order to be successful at Anduril, our engineering leaders need to be fluent in problem analysis, systems design, and rapid development. You must demonstrate a history of successfully coordinating large teams of engineers working on many different stages of efforts against complex demanding schedules and disparate contract obligations.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Lead the SW organization within the AD&S business which delivers all SW development efforts against group 5, mission autonomy, and missiles business lines
• Direct all engineering activities to include team building, execution, process, and technical oversight.
• Design and build a Lattice based software capability that enables high performance autonomy on many different vehicles (first and third party) in many different domains (space, air, surface, sea) from first principles to integrated and operational capability
• Work with our product management and business development teams to distill representative mission use cases that customers understand and that engineers can use to inform backlog prioritization
• Prioritize and develop clear engineering strategies and accompanied resource plans. Anduril’s growth outpaces our ability to staff the organization. Effective resource allocation is critical to successful execution.
• Support and field autonomous weapons systems in a hands-on fashion.

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.
• Experience leading team of size greater than 100.
• Demonstrated experience as a principal level individual contributor working with high performing software engineering teams.
• Proven experience establishing and maintaining trust with customers working in highly regulated, high stakes business environments.
• 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 software development and acquisition within the United States Intelligence Community or Department of Defense.
• Experience building embedded software for autonomous robotic systems.
• Experience building and operating globally distributed eventually consistent networked software systems.
• Willingness to travel fr