andurilindustries

Chief Engineer, Autonomous Flight

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At a Glance

Location
Costa Mesa, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States; Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Department
Software
Posted
2026-07-29T15:46:59-04:00

Key Requirements

Domain Knowledge

  • Aerospace
  • Banking
  • Defense
  • Education
  • Finance
  • Media
  • Regulatory
  • Robotics

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance

ensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to empl

Requirements

Proven track record directing technical architecture and guiding individual contributors as a lead engineer

Background in developing and fielding software-heavy robotics, autonomous systems, or aerospace products.

Strong hardware/software integration skills, including robotics software architectures and tactical mission systems.

Experience with autonomous systems, mission-critical Department of Defense systems, or tactical edge technologies.

Ability to travel up to 25% to customer sites and field testing locations.

Work history involving multi-domain unmanned systems (air, ground, or maritime).

Responsibilities

The Air Dominance & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial and multi-domain robotic systems.

The team is responsible for taking products like Fury (unmanned fighter jet) and Barracuda (air-breathing cruise missile) from concept to product.

The team also develops Lattice for Mission Autonomy, Anduril’s premier software platform that enables masses of Fury, Barracuda, and other first and third-party robots to collaborate across various missions.

We work in close coordination with specialist teams like Perception, Motion Planning, Hardware, and Test Engineering to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers.

As a Chief Engineer, you will own the technical architecture and system-level design of the onboard autonomy stack, command and control systems, and modular payloads for our next-generation autonomous platforms. With a software heavy focus, you will guide lean, multi-disciplinary engineering teams from "0-to-1" design through deployment, bridging the gap between high-level business strategy and rigorous engineering execution.

Lead systems engineering, requirements decomposition, and technical architecture for software-heavy robotics systems.