Anduril
Mission Systems Lead
$298K–$395K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Jul 9, 2026
- Experience
- No total number of years specified. Requires senior-role military mission-system delivery experience; preferred: 5+ years of operational experience with autonomous maritime systems.
- Education
- Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
About the job
Leads the technical design, integration, testing, and delivery of mission systems for maritime platforms, coordinating engineering teams, customers, and vendors.
What you'll do
- Own customer success through design and delivery of an operational maritime mission system; lead its architecture and integration with vehicle systems.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams developing on- and off-platform software, and establish development, testing, and simulation processes.
- Contribute to the maritime mission-system integration roadmap and support manufacturing and deployment; travel up to 25%.
What they ask for
- Senior-role experience delivering a military mission system.
- Experience developing and sustaining distributed software architectures under dynamic network topologies, plus modeling and simulation.
- Experience developing high-assurance safety-critical software and comprehensive unit and regression tests.
- Deep understanding of autonomous weapons systems; experience across product delivery, including manufacturing, acceptance, deployment, and sustainment; familiarity with vehicle management systems and systems engineering; eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
- Leadership experience in a high-performing technology organization; 5+ years of operational experience with autonomous maritime systems.
Pay
$298,000 — $395,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Vehicle Management System, software- and hardware-in-the-loop
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