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Senior Director, Solutions Engineering

Anduril· Sales and Marketing : Business Development : Anduril Labs
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Washington, DC$220k - $292kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior-level leader responsible for executive engagements, capture strategy, and technical program management to grow DoD/commercial opportunities, align cross-functional teams, and ensure successful development and deployment of Anduril’s systems in support of strategic growth.

Responsibilities

  • Initiate and sustain executive-level engagements with existing and prospective customers and lead the response strategy for RFIs, RFPs, RFWPs, and unsolicited proposals that position Anduril to win
  • Lead technical and programmatic opportunities in the initial shaping, capture, and design stage of a strategic growth opportunity, and support the end-to-end strategic growth process
  • Develop and manage multi-business line collaborations to unlock use cases and markets for mature and emerging Anduril products with a focus on increased connectivity, containerization, and interoperability with customer command and control architectures
  • Manage the detailed design of the system and subsystems including requirements development, systems and subsystem trades and optimization, risk management etc. to ensure the appropriate consideration of design key performance parameters, schedule, costs and risks in order to shape the growth opportunity
  • Own the technical and programmatic success of strategic growth opportunities, establish technical and programmatic vision assemble cross-functional teams of internal and external subject matter experts within the Anduril Divisions, and communicate that vision to them
  • Set up trade analysis to enable the exploration of early conceptual designs while working closely with technical experts and strategic growth team to find the right solution to current and future gaps in the DoW capability to ensure the war-fighter has the best solution for current and future conflicts
  • Coordinate closely with manufacturing to ensure the fabrication of prototype and low-rate production articles are capable of expansion to full rate manufacturing
  • Work with senior leadership to ensure resource plans are adequate for work scope

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical or Software engineering, or equivalent experience in a relevant field
  • Proven development and growth leader with prior experience in commercial or DoD Capture and Sales, demonstrating a track record of shaping a capability from concept through funded prototyping or program of record start
  • Familiarity with the full product lifecycle, from concept and prototyping through fielding and sustainment, and the ability to work across engineering, capture, and operations to move a new effort through it
  • Demonstrated high-energy, high-ownership leader who will drive performance and exhibit strong management skills with a high level of emotional intelligence. Must be able to work in a fast-paced, highly entrepreneurial, and creative environment, and be able to build, adapt, and implement new and innovative approaches to market
  • Excellent writing and communication skills with experience briefing 3-star+ customer stakeholders and C-suite internal stakeholders
  • Demonstrated knowledge of relevant DoD / IC / Commercial programs, platforms and payloads, to include enabling technologies, systems integration and software development
  • Minimum of 10 years experience or relevant systems engineering and growth support
  • Travel 25% to Customer and Test Sites
  • Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:Executive engagement and RFI/RFP strategySystems engineering and designCapture and growth leadershipCross-functional team leadershipTechnical communication to executives

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package (health, recovery, and related support)
  • Explore Our Benefits information available at the provided career page link
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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