Lead Systems Engineer, Integration & Test

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.

At Anduril, our Battlespace Awareness Command and Control Software team specializes in solving complex, real-world problems through cutting-edge algorithms and intelligent software integrations. Operating in small, innovative teams, we push the boundaries of what's possible to deliver advanced technologies with mission-critical applications.

Our commitment doesn't end with academic research or proof-of-concept experiments; we measure our success by the real-world impact of our deployed solutions. Inspired by Arthur

C. Clarke's vision — "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" —

Our work involves cutting-edge algorithms and high-performance software for multi-target tracking, data fusion, battle management, autonomous robotic control, and mission planning. We are currently seeking a highly talented, seasoned technical leader to join our mission and redefine the future of defense technology.

We are looking to hire a Lead Systems Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Broomfield, CO, and Waltham, MA. The Battlespace Awareness team develops tactical sense- and decision-making software that provides advanced capabilities for Anduril's command and control (C2) products. This software must work with various combinations of compute hardware, connected sensor/effector hardware, and supporting software services. Proving that software is robust to variations in scenario, configuration, and mission set is a responsibility this team owns end-to-end.

In this role, you'll set technical direction and build the team that owns that whole pipeline — running our software through simulated scenarios, building performance analyses, red-teaming through scenario design, and creating the tooling so that engineers and customers understand system behavior. You'll be hands-on where it matters most, while also managing engineers, growing their careers, and ensuring the team's technical execution meets the bar our mission demands.

This is a build-measure-analyze role for someone who has done it before at scale, led people through it, and can bring that judgment to a fast-moving team.

• Lead and grow a team of engineers. Manage direct reports, including hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, career development, and day-to-day people leadership.
• Set the technical direction for scenario design and analysis. Guide how the team exercises our software across simulated and real-world data sets and ensure the resulting analysis produces performance results people can act on.
• Own the metrics strategy. Define the measures of system success across the team's portfolio, ensure they're instrumented correctly, and use them to drive engineering decisions and product roadmap discussions with leadership.
• Represent the team in customer engagements. Oversee and personally participate in building and configuring simulation scenarios for customer-facing demos, and serve as a technical voice with customers and stakeholders.
• Drive root-cause analysis of system behavior. Guide the team's characterization of individual component behavior and emergent behaviors arising from system interactions, and use those findings to shape architecture.
• Build and scale the tooling. Set priorities for new data analysis and observability tooling and CI/CD automation, balancing team bandwidth against engineering needs.
• Operate across the seams. Partner with algorithm and software…