Chief Engineer, Networking

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center.

As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting‑edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

The Menace Platform Division is developing a first-of-its‑kind platform built for the tactical edge, where connectivity is contested, latency costs lives, and resilience defines victory. Built on Anduril’s field‑proven Menace and Voyager systems, and powered by the company’s Lattice orchestration framework and distributed Fabric and Data Mesh, the Menace Platform allows warfighters, allies, and partners to deploy applications, share data, and make decisions at machine speed—even when disconnected.

The Menace Platform team is rapidly scaling and is looking for engineering leaders to drive the development of our foundational stack that supports a wide range of connected warfare applications, from early prototypes to customer incubation to world‑wide release.

• Divisional responsibilities leading the end-to-end efforts and team responsible for developing Menace Mesh – our fundamental battlefield network offering. You will drive strategy, execution, and product definition from an early stage product through feature development, scalability, and a long‑term engineering vision.
• Work cross‑divisionally on defining the technical vision, developing product roadmaps across Connected Warfare while giving appropriate consideration to key design choices, performance parameters, schedule, costs and risk.
• Lead the end-to-end efforts and team responsible for enabling resilient and mesh‑by‑default networking at the edge through optimized communication pathways and communication continuums across echelons.
• Own technical vision developing product roadmaps that give appropriate consideration of design key performance parameters, schedule, costs and risk.
• Coordinate the development of prototype and early releases that provide real capabilities in the hands of customers and internal business lines at rapid pace.
• Manage the detailed design of the architecture and stack that balances customer requirements, product vision and speed to market.
• Work with senior leadership to gain strategic alignment and ensure resource plans are adequate for the scope of work.
• Enable remote sustainment of solutions at scale.

• Bachelor’s of Science, Masters or PhD in an engineering field.
• Deep, hands‑on expertise in designing, building, and owning the architecture of distributed systems.
• Proven experience running large‑scale production systems with high availability and performance requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to make architecture and trade‑off decisions across security, latency, and extensibility.
• Deep familiarity with cloud‑native architectures, including containerization, orchestration and managed infrastructure services.
• Experience in a senior role leading programs from initial concept through test and delivery to customers.
• Experience creating teams and focusing them around a common vision.
• Direct experience deploying and operating distributed systems on major cloud platforms including AWS, Azure and/or GCP – a huge plus.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

US Salary Range

$191,000 – $336,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full‑time offers;…