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Mission Systems Lead - Thunder

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance
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Costa Mesa, CA$220k - $292kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Engineering leadership role to design, integrate, and deliver Thunder’s Mission System (autonomy, mission equipment, and payload) for an autonomous attack rotorcraft, coordinating with vehicle software, payload/weapon interfaces, and certification stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system for a new Maneuver Dominance platform.
  • Partner with the Vehicle Software team responsible for core sensor, actuator, and vehicle system functionality; collaborate on interfacing requirements between Vehicle Management System and Mission System stacks.
  • Oversee payload system integration with the host vehicle mission system stack.
  • Oversee weapon system integration, including compliance with munitions/range safety and export control requirements.
  • Drive architecture selection and design for robotic mission systems (hardware, compute, storage, network), considering MOSA/WOSA, STANAG 4586 interoperability, and MIL-STD interfaces; service orchestration and multi-stakeholder constraints.
  • Own mission system interoperability and open-architecture posture, including MOSA/WOSA, STANAG 4586/4671, and AEDP/AGRA-aligned data practices for certification pathway.
  • Define and own payload/weapon interface control documents (ICDs) for MIL-STD-1760 and MIL-STD-1553 integration with third-party vendors.
  • Partner with airworthiness/certification stakeholders to support MOSA-based airworthiness and genealogy tracking for Thunder’s certification path.
  • Contribute to company-wide roadmap for mission system integration into Maneuver Dominance platforms.
  • Lead teams that develop software on- and off-platform across multiple technologies.
  • Drive development processes for initial delivery and subsequent iterations of mission software, including full lifecycle testing.
  • Create test and simulation fixtures for software- and hardware-in-the-loop.
  • Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment.
  • Lead multidisciplinary teams and mentor Senior Software Engineers from diverse backgrounds.
  • Leverage internal teams to rapidly deliver capabilities with clear architecture and capability evolution.
  • Travel to co-locate with end-users/teams up to 25% of the time.

Qualifications

  • Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system
  • Experience managing engineering teams (many direct reports) within a high performing technology organization
  • Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures under dynamic network topologies
  • Experience with modeling and simulation
  • Experience with Python and modern systems/application programming languages (e.g., C++, Rust)
  • Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software
  • Experience developing comprehensive unit, integration, and regression test suites
  • Deep understanding of weapon and payload integration for autonomous systems across commercial and military mission sets
  • Experience in product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment
  • Familiarity with vehicle management systems
  • Familiarity with Systems Engineering concepts (requirements traceability and ICDs)
  • Familiarity with MOSA/WOSA and their application to air vehicle mission systems
  • Familiarity with MIL-STD-1760, MIL-STD-1553 and interoperability standards (STANAG 4586)
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:Mission system integrationSystem architecture

Benefits

  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including health, recovery and others; comprehensive benefits package; explore benefits at Anduril Careers
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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