Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Maritime

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

Anduril’s Maritime Division has assembled a diverse team of experts in software, robotics, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and data analysis to create software and hardware solutions that radically evolve the capabilities of our customers. We are fielding the next generation of autonomous systems to tackle the extremely challenging industry demands of maritime operations. Anduril has brought to market a unique, ultra-long-range, full-ocean-depth underwater vessel platform and a completely refreshed maritime vehicle and flexible manufacturing architecture that scales from "small" to "extra-large" vehicle sizes. Today, Anduril is executing on billion-dollar contracts while simultaneously performing Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) AUV operations. We are seeking to sustain our early successes with deep investment in an expanded product portfolio. These products, including Dive-XL, Dive-LD, Copperhead, Seabed Sentry, and other unannounced systems, will deliver a coherent system-of-systems, enabling the end-to-end conduct of a variety of autonomous missions in the maritime domain. If you are passionate about solving problems that have real impact and working on systems that directly contribute to achieving national strategic priorities, we want you to join Anduril’s Maritime Division and help us build the future of defense capability.

ABOUT THE JOB

Senior Software Engineering Managers independently lead groups of teams to deliver a variety of software integrated in to our products. This includes autonomy, simulation, data processing, payload integration, and off-board command and control or decision support. We expect Senior Software Engineering Managers to demonstrate independent end-to-end outcome ownership of software for an integrated product family, and the teams responsible for building and maintaining it. Senior Software Engineering Managers contribute as a group lead to the rapid architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of next generation autonomous platforms through their entire product life-cycle.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

* Collaborate with your Technical Lead and other managers to design and deliver on a multi-year, multi-stakeholder software roadmap that spans across multiple groups of teams and products * Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams, and external third-parties, to rapidly deliver capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time * Manage architecture selection and design for robotic systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture, service orchestration and other software platform concerns that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment * Influence the design and development of a company wide roadmap for software inputs to autonomous systems, ensuring it meets the needs of your group * Manage a group of teams that develop software that runs on- and off- platform, using a variety of technologies * Influence peers and executives within your broader cross-functional engineering organization, ensuring that software engineers who are employed in cross-functional engineering teams reporting to your peers are appropriately employed and managed * Act as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi-stakeholder environment including engineering, business and sales leadership * Drive the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of software, including full lifecycle testing * Build and manage a 12 - 36 month roadmap for your group, nested within broader organizational and company roadmap

• Manage an allocated budget for your group
• Manage programmatic risk for your group, and collaborate with your Technical

Lead to manage technical risk, including sound and timely decision making * Lead by example as a technically competent, trustworthy, and accountable leader * Contribute to the development of organizational vision and strategy, then communicate it effectively to your group * Define, document, gain consensus for, and communicate appropriate goals and plans for your group, derived from broader organizational vision, strategy, and priorities * Build your subordinate teams and managers through mentoring, professional development, career management, and collaboration with Anduril’s recruiting and people functions * Work as a leader of a multi-disciplinary engineering group of 10 - 24 members, including as a mentor and manager for engineers and managers from differing backgrounds, and with “dotted line” responsibility for an additional 10 - 24 software engineers that report to your peers * Report to a manager who typically will not have a background in software engineering * Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience * Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system and/or autonomous vehicle * Experience in a senior management position within a high performing technology organization * Extensive professional experience working as a Software Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise * Capacity to lead a group that works holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment * Capacity to act as the owner for a software platform spanning multiple integrated products, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation management, sustainment and evolution * Capacity learn and grow individually, while mentoring team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity * Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Experience writing backend services or embedded software in C, C++, Rust and/or Go

• Experience writing frontend applications using Typescript and React
• Experience working with a RTOS
• Experience with the design, implementation and operation of horizontally

scaled cloud technologies * Experience with the design, implementation and support of embedded software, particularly in the field of robotics

• Experience with modeling and simulation
• Familiarity with communications busses and protocols (e.g. CAN, CANFD,

UART/RS232/RS422/RS485, SPI, QSPI, I2C, Ethernet, ARINC-825, ARINC-429, MIL-STD-1553, etc). * Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software, including with DO-178, IEC 61508, or similar standards * Experience in design and development of embedded applications in autonomous vehicle software systems

• Experience in developing interfaces to sensors and actuators
• Experience working with and testing electrical and mechanical systems
• Familiarity with navigation and communications systems
• Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing,

system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment

• Familiarity with Systems Engineering concepts
• Desire to learn and grow in to other roles that require experience as a

Senior Software Engineering Manager, such as Software Engineering Director US Salary Range

$254,000—$336,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

BENEFITS

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits [

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