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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 102 days Anduril Industries's roles stay open a median of 103 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 1% of Anduril Industries's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Anduril Industries
- high 2263 stale, 67 reposted of 2,263 open
- Hiring momentum
- 649 roles opened in the last 90 days ↓ down vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-11-14
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About this role
As a Payloads Lead Engineer at Anduril, you will oversee the payloads architecture and integration for autonomous aerial systems like Thunder. Your responsibilities include leading multiple teams, managing project plans, and ensuring cross-team consistency in technical domains. You will also serve as the primary technical liaison with customers and suppliers, while driving standards for airworthiness and modular architecture across payload systems.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline
- Eleven or more years of engineering experience with a bachelor's degree, nine or more years with a master's degree, or seven or more years with a PhD
- Demonstrated experience leading multiple engineering teams or a multi-team organization
- Hands-on background with MIL STD 1553 and/or MIL STD 1760 interfaces
- Experience integrating weapons, payloads, or avionics onto aircraft
- Experience with weapon or tactical datalinks
Nice to have
- Experience leading weaponization or special mission unit platform conversion programs
- Familiarity with air to ground weapon systems
- Software programming or embedded systems experience
- Experience owning safe separation and airworthiness certification strategy at a program level
- Working knowledge of MOSA/WOSA open architecture standards
What you get
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers
Worth weighing
- No specific details on the technology stack beyond MIL STD interfaces and payload integration
- Role involves significant leadership and management responsibilities, which may not appeal to all engineers
- Travel requirement of up to 25% may impact work-life balance
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Listed by Anduril Industries on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-11-14. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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