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Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Maneuver Dominance Engineering : Mission Software Engineering
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Sydney, NSWfull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineering Manager leading groups of teams delivering software across autonomy, simulation, data processing, payload integration, and off-board command and control for autonomous maritime systems within Anduril’s Maritime Division.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with 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 organisational 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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
  • 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
  • Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance

Skills

Required:Software engineering leadershipArchitecture and roadmap ownershipBudget and risk managementStakeholder engagement

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) including health and recovery support
  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
  • Potential for equity grants as part of total compensation package
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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