Anduril
Mission Systems Lead - Thunder
$220K–$292K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Experience
- No minimum number of years stated; requires experience across the areas listed in the qualifications.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
About the job
Leads the technical design, integration, testing, and delivery of the Thunder autonomous rotorcraft’s mission system, including its autonomy, payloads, weapons, and interfaces.
What you'll do
- Own mission-system architecture and integration with vehicle software, payloads, weapons, and third-party vendors.
- Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams and deliver mission software, development processes, and software-/hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Support airworthiness, manufacturing, deployment, and the roadmap for mission-system integration across Maneuver Dominance platforms.
What they ask for
- Senior-role experience delivering a military mission system and experience managing engineering teams.
- Experience with distributed software architectures, modeling and simulation, Python and modern programming languages, safety-critical software, and comprehensive test suites.
- Deep understanding of autonomous-system weapon and payload integration, plus product delivery through manufacturing, acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with airworthiness certification and third-party or government-furnished payload/weapon integration.
Pay
$220,000 — $292,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, C++, Rust, MOSA/WOSA, STANAG 4586, STANAG 4671, MIL-STD-1760, MIL-STD-1553
AI focus
The role supports an autonomous attack rotorcraft and its mission autonomy; the posting does not specify direct AI development responsibilities.
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