Chief Engineer, Intel SystemsNew$336K

Anduril is seeking a Chief Engineer to lead the design, development, and technical integration for a product line of critical network capabilities. This role is not just about leading; it's about re-envisioning the technical future of secure, resilient, and high-bandwidth…

What you'll do

• Technical Vision & Architecture: Own and define the comprehensive technical architecture, design principles, and engineering roadmap for complex, distributed network systems. Ensure technical consistency, scalability, performance, and cyber-resilience across all technical domains (embedded software, UI/UX design, network protocols, hardware integration, ruggedized mechanical designs).

• System Integrity & Risk Management: Serve as the ultimate technical arbiter, ensuring the integrity, reliability, security, and survivability of our network systems in contested and high security environments. Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks related to performance, security, and physical robustness.

• Engineering Leadership & Mentorship: Provide decisive technical leadership and guidance to large, multi-disciplinary engineering teams (Mechanical, Electrical, Software) to deliver high quality products that can be manufactured at scale. Foster a culture of technical excellence, rigorous design, rapid iteration, and continuous improvement, ensuring seamless collaboration across disciplines.

• Strategic Technical Guidance: Translate strategic objectives and customer needs into actionable technical requirements and solutions. Drive trade studies, technology selections, and critical design decisions related to network topology, protocol selection, embedded hardware integration, power management, thermal management, and software-defined networking.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary technical interface with internal stakeholders (Product, Program Management, Executive Leadership) and external stakeholders (customers, partners, regulatory bodies), clearly articulating complex technical concepts, challenges, and solutions for network capabilities.

• Rapid Prototyping, Fielding, and Scaled Production: Drive aggressive timelines for design, development, integration, and testing of network systems, supporting rapid prototyping, fielding, and scaled production of operational capabilities for defense applications.

What they're looking for

• Background in cybersecurity for network infrastructure and resilience against: near-peer nation state cyber risks.
• Experience with network modeling, simulation, and analysis tools for: predicting performance in diverse environments.
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical decisions involving significant: financial and programmatic impact for network system development.
• Familiarity with military communication standards and requirements (e.g.,: Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) concepts).