Mission Systems Lead - Thunder
Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States
Posted 8 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 8 days Anduril Industries's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 1% of Anduril Industries's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Anduril Industries
- high 1390 stale, 67 reposted of 2,263 open
- Hiring momentum
- 3233 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
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About this role
As the Mission Systems Lead for Thunder at Anduril Industries, you will oversee the technical development and integration of mission systems for an advanced autonomous tilt-rotor platform. Your role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure the successful design and delivery of mission autonomy, equipment, and payload systems, while managing engineering teams and ensuring compliance with military standards. You will also be responsible for driving architecture selection and leading the development of software and testing processes.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system
- Experience managing engineering teams within a high performing technology organization
- Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures
- Experience with modeling and simulation
- Experience with Python and modern systems/application programming languages (e.g., C++, Rust)
- Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
- Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency and optimization
- Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
- Track record of mentoring senior engineers and building team cohesion
- Experience with airworthiness certification processes for uncrewed or manned-unmanned teaming aircraft
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 information on the technologies used beyond Python, C++, and Rust
- Travel requirement of up to 25% may impact work-life balance
- Role involves significant leadership responsibilities, which may not suit all candidates
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Listed by Anduril Industries on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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