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Vehicle Systems Lead

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Heavy Metal - Engineering & Operations : Systems Engineering
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Santa Ana, CA$220k - $292kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Lead the technical development and integration of vehicle systems for a maritime product, from concept to delivery, coordinating with program leadership, other Anduril products, and third-party vendors to ensure customer requirements are traceable to program decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Ownership of the Vehicle System, interfaces to other Systems, and overall performance against the Program and Product requirements for a new start platform
  • Schedule and execution ownership for vehicle system across product generations, including timeframe of development, prototype testing, demonstrations, transitioning from prototype designs to rate manufacturing etc.
  • Responsibility for vehicle developmental budget and cost performance, ensuring all subsystems are compliant and targeting cost reduction according to system cost plan
  • Technical leadership at the vehicle system level, including overall responsibility for technical performance, implementation and adherence to design principals and tenets, sustainment of issue resolution activities, etc.
  • Escalation path for technical decision making and/or deconfliction for the vehicle system team. Additional decision making/escalation to be done through Maritime Chief Engineer
  • Represent the vehicle system in leadership meetings, customer interfacing meetings, and wherever else appropriate
  • Lead meetings across the vehicle team at the necessary cadences such as daily standup, sprint planning, retro, monthlies, all-hands etc.
  • Interface directly with Chief Engineer and other system leads on technical challenges and issue resolution
  • Interface directly with peers across Production, Payloads, Mission Systems, Field Operations, Product Management, and Sustainment teams to align execution streams to product level schedule.
  • Drive platform level trade studies across critical systems and subsystems to inform generational architectural updates and changes to the platform.
  • Lead and mentor Senior and Principal level engineers for growth towards platform level leadership roles.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
  • Extensive professional experience working as an Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise
  • Extensive professional experience working as a project lead or manager driving execution across diverse engineering disciplines
  • Extensive professional experience with detailed project planning at the product or system level across diverse engineering disciplines
  • Experience with projects, programs, or products transitioning from prototype design, prototype testing, new product introduction, and transition into production
  • Ability to work in an extremely fast paced environment with the capability to maintain organization across a large team and effectively triage issues and blockers across the product organization

Skills

Required:Vehicle system ownershipCross-functional leadershipProgram/Project management

Benefits

  • Benefits package (comprehensive, competitive) including health coverage and other support, available at little to no cost to employees
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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