Engineering Lead, Air Defense U.S. Air Force Portfolio

Anduril Industries, Irvine, California +1

The role

The U.S. Air Force is one of Anduril's largest and fastest-growing air defense customers, and the work has moved well past demonstrations. The portfolio runs programs of record, multi-year IDIQs, and recurring sustainment at the same time, and installation defense is scaling from individual sites toward a service-wide posture. The technical scope is broadening with it, across sensors, effectors, command and control, tactical networks, and accreditation boundaries.

Four kinds of work run in parallel. Permanent installations defend flightlines and test ranges on base infrastructure under a government accreditation posture, which makes power, networking, cyber compliance, and data handling as much of the engineering as sensors and effectors. Deployable kits ship on short notice and have to work on arrival, including in environments cold enough to change how the hardware behaves. Rapidly relocatable passive detection pushes the kill chain well past the base perimeter and into the theater air picture through tactical data links.

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Engineering Lead, Air Defense U.S. Air Force Portfolio

Anduril Industries, Irvine, California +1

The role

What you will do

Own the technical baseline. Architecture, interface set, and verification approach for the delivered configurations across the portfolio. Set the baseline for each, and update it when field evidence shows the current one is incomplete or wrong. Own the certification and accreditation scope where it applies, working with the teams responsible for those functions.

Integrate systems you do not own. Most of what these systems connect to belongs to someone else: equipment already on the base, partner command and control we integrate with rather than replace, government-furnished equipment, third-party sensors and effectors arriving through the Lattice SDK, and tactical data links into the wider air picture. Much of that scope arrives underspecified. Negotiate it directly with the partner or the program office, then give Anduril a clear account of what integrates cleanly, what needs an engineering sprint, and what is not technically ready.

Own whether it works at the site. Define the verification and environmental qualification approach, and explain why the planned coverage is sufficient. Make the call on whether a configuration is ready to ship. When a fielded site degrades, reproduce the failure on real hardware and real data, lead the recovery under time pressure, and feed what you learn back into the product so the next site does not repeat it.

Carry the engineering position with the customer and in pursuits. Be the engineer the portfolio brings in when the customer's engineers start asking the detailed questions. Translate operational requirements into executable technical scope, write the technical content and the basis of estimate behind a proposal, and say plainly when a commitment outruns what the engineering supports.

Solve the problems that recur across programs. These programs share hardware, software baselines, and people, so the same failures show up at site after site, and deployment networking is the clearest example. Define the standard the next deployment builds against instead of solving it once per site.

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Engineering Lead, Air Defense U.S. Air Force Portfolio

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Engineering Lead, Air Defense U.S. Air Force Portfolio

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