Anduril Industries
Chief Engineer
About this role
Anduril Industries seeks a Chief Engineer to serve as the technical authority for critical defense imaging programs, driving strategy from concept through production. You'll lead multidisciplinary engineering teams, translate customer needs into innovative solutions, and champion the company's imaging and sensor technology roadmap.
What you'll do
- Define system architectures and CONOPS that address mission gaps and customer requirements
- Oversee end-to-end engineering execution across hardware, software, and production teams while managing cost, schedule, and technical performance
- Lead New Product Introduction activities, coordinate EMD efforts, and ensure manufacturing readiness
- Identify and mitigate technical risks, arbitrate trade-offs across engineering disciplines, and make top-level technical decisions
- Serve as technical evangelist, communicating complex imaging and sensor technology to customers, partners, and internal leadership
- Support production and field issue resolution while driving new business integrations
What they're looking for
- System architecture and CONOPS development
- Multidisciplinary engineering leadership (hardware, software, mechanical, electrical, RF, optics)
- New Product Introduction and manufacturing readiness processes
- Program management (cost, schedule, risk, performance)
- Technical communication and executive presentation
- Computer vision and sensor fusion technologies
- Defense and mission-critical systems experience
- Team mentoring and high-performance culture building
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Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries builds autonomous defense systems including underwater vehicles, unmanned aircraft, and electronic warfare platforms for the Department of Defense. The company is hiring across mechanical engineering, mission operations, software development, technical leadership, and advanced manufacturing roles to support the design, deployment, and production of these mission-critical systems.
- Website
- anduril.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a complex, multidisciplinary program you led from concept to production—what were the biggest technical trade-offs you had to arbitrate?
- How have you successfully transitioned a system from engineering to manufacturing, and what NPI challenges did you encounter?