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Anduril is seeking a Chief Engineer for Air Defense programs in the Middle East, responsible for system architecture, integration strategy, and fielding readiness across various programs.
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.
What You'll Do
- Technical authority for the region.
- Serve as Chief Engineer for Air Defense's Middle East programs.
- Own system architecture, integration strategy, fielding readiness, and sustainment outcomes across every program in the portfolio.
- Set the technical baseline, chair design reviews, and make the technical decisions that keep schedules aligned with the engineering.
- Exercise this authority across engineers who don't report to you.
- Integration across systems you do not own.
- Define interfaces to partner radars and effectors, customer-furnished equipment, legacy command and control being displaced, and third-party systems the customer has already bought.
- Negotiate integration scope directly with partner vendors and government program offices.
- Own the engineering position in foreign sales engineering negotiations.
- Deploy to the region, work alongside operators and field service teams, and own technical performance in the field.
- Represent Anduril's engineering position to partner nation ministries, program offices, primes, and authorization authorities.
- Shape the technical content of pursuits as the regional pipeline expands.
Required Qualifications
- Engineering, science, or other technical degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of systems or engineering experience, with a track record of technical ownership on fielded systems.
- Experience integrating third-party and customer-furnished hardware and software into a system you were accountable for.
- Ability to carry technical authority across teams that do not report to you.
- Ability to define a verification approach for a full program scope.
- Willingness to travel up to 50% of the year, with Middle East travel the majority of it.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Conditions
- US Salary Range: $191,000 — $253,000 USD.
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.