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Chief Engineer, Air Defense, Middle East Programs

Anduril· AFS : Air Defense Engineering : Chief Engineering
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Hybrid (Multiple U.S. locations)$191k - $253kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Anduril Industries seeks a Chief Engineer for Air Defense to own architecture, integration, fielding readiness, and sustainment across Middle East programs, coordinating with direct commercial sales, foreign military sales, and multi-site rollouts. Role emphasizes field deployment, customer-facing technical authority, and growth of regional technical content.

Responsibilities

  • 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. Middle East programs integrate coalition hardware. 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. Much of the integration scope arrives underspecified. Negotiate it directly with partner vendors and government program offices, then give Anduril a clear account of what integrates cleanly, what requires an engineering sprint, and what isn't technically ready.
  • Foreign sales engineering. Direct commercial sales and foreign military sales create engineering requirements beyond those of domestic programs, including releasability and export posture, in-country localization and production content, sustainment concepts measured in years rather than task orders, and technical terms negotiated into the contract before design begins. Own the engineering position in those negotiations and write the basis of estimate that supports it.
  • Field operations and recovery. Deploy to the region, work alongside operators and field service teams, and own technical performance in the field. When a fielded site degrades, lead the recovery under time pressure and across a time zone gap, then feed what you learn back into the product to prevent the same failure at the next site.
  • Customer technical authority. Represent Anduril's engineering position to partner nation ministries, program offices, primes, and authorization authorities. Bring their requirements and constraints back to Anduril. Translate customer-stated operational requirements into executable technical plans, and explain engineering constraints in terms a customer can act on.
  • Growth. Shape the technical content of pursuits as the regional pipeline expands faster than the delivered baseline. Write credible estimates and flag any commitment that the engineering can't support.

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
  • End-to-end technical accountability for whether a delivered system actually worked in an operational environment, not only for producing its design artifacts
  • 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, and to brief senior technical leadership and external customers directly
  • Ability to define a verification approach for a full program scope, negotiate requirements and acceptance with a customer, and write a credible basis of estimate
  • 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

Skills

Required:System architectureIntegration managementExternal engagementVerification planningTravel

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees). For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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