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Mission Systems Lead, Omen

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance
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Costa Mesa, CA$253k - $336kFull-timePosted 6d ago

About the role

Lead the Mission Systems development and integration for Anduril’s Omen autonomous air vehicle, spanning mission perception, mission autonomy, and payload systems from concept through delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Own customer success through the design and delivery of fully operational mission systems for a new Anduril platform, covering Mission Perception, Mission Autonomy, and Payloads.
  • Build and lead the Mission Systems team. Hire and manage multi-disciplinary engineers, mentor Junior and Senior Software Engineers, and set team norms, technical standards, and review practices.
  • Define and own the technical roadmap for Omen Mission Systems across short, medium, and long term horizons.
  • Mission Autonomy: Own the software stack enabling autonomous mission execution, including lifecycle toolchain for design, planning, operation, and debrief, plus operator command and control.
  • Mission Payloads: Own integration of payload modules with the host vehicle mission system stack, including power, bandwidth, timing, and autonomy interfaces, with passive/active sensors, launched effects, and EW payloads.
  • Mission Perception: Own sensing and world model development, safe and assured navigation, GPS-denied operation, and recovery to austere sites.
  • Lead demonstrations of Autonomy, Payload operations, and Perception kits from lab to surrogates to Omen.
  • Partner with Vehicle Software team on interfacing requirements between Vehicle Management System and Mission System stacks.
  • Drive architecture selection and design for robotic mission systems, including hardware, compute, storage, and network architectures with modular open systems.
  • Define and own payload ICDs for integration with third-party and government-furnished payloads.
  • Travel up to 25% to support test events, vendor collaboration, end-user engagements and co-location with other teams.

Qualifications

  • Experience as a Senior or staff robotics or software development engineer
  • Experience managing engineering teams within a high performing technology organization
  • Experience with distributed software platform and application architectures under dynamic network topologies
  • Experience with Python and modern systems/programming languages (e.g., C++, Rust)
  • Deep understanding of autonomous systems including perception and payload capabilities across commercial and military mission sets
  • Experience in the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment
  • Familiarity with vehicle management systems and Systems Engineering concepts, including requirements traceability and ICDs
  • Familiarity with modular open systems approaches and standard interface protocols for air vehicle mission systems
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:Leadership and team managementAutonomous systemsPythonC++ or Rust

Benefits

  • Highly competitive equity grants included in majority of full-time offers
  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees (health, recovery, and more)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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