Vice President, Engineering, Air Dominance and Strike

You’ll be the leader for Anduril’s Air Dominance and Strike hardware engineering organization. This group will be accountable for the hardware engineering disciplines in the design of Group 5 UAS and missile systems. This includes conceptual and configuration design, aero performance, mechanical systems, structures design and analysis, propulsion integration, and electrical engineering efforts.
Areas of responsibility include conceptual layout through detailed design, and supporting the manufacturing, integration and flight test teams. The ideal candidate will be able to ensure the adequacy of the technical designs and solution, as well as drive the long term organizational develop of the team. The ideal candidate will have previous experience as being the technical lead for a group 5 aircraft or missile system and also have foundational expertise in one or more engineering disciplines listed earlier. You will leverage your technical expertise as well as leadership skills to set objectives, build a team, and drive to completion. The ability to leverage your intuition and prior experience in key technical decisions will be vital in making sure the right design/analysis/ and test steps are being completed to ensure success., as well as looking ahead at the future needs of the organization and ensuring they are on track to deliver the capability needed to support upcoming programs.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Lead the technical execution of new and existing air vehicle systems design, fabrication, test and productization. This includes aircraft and missiles.
• Lead the long term functional engineering team development roadmap to ensure we have the skillsets, capabilities and workflows to enable successful execution of current and future programs.
• Own the technical success and meet deliverable timelines in all phases of development.
• Establish a center of excellence in air vehicle design that includes a library of standards, allowables, and tool sets to build upon.
• Find, hire, manage, and mentor the team of internal and external subject matter experts, and communicate that vision to them.
• Partner closely with the business lines in areas of proposal capture, customer interface, resource planning, capital expenditures and program schedules.
• Partner closely with additional stakeholder disciplines that are not under you direct organizational leadership; These include but are not limited to manufacturing, supply chain, energetics, mission systems integrations, GNC, Flight test and evaluation.
• Manage the detailed design of the system and subsystems including requirements development, sub-system trades and optimization, risk management to ensure the appropriate consideration of design key performance parameters, schedule, costs and risks.
• Own the overall model/drawing/documentation package required for initial build and effective production transition.
• Work with senior leadership to ensure resource plans are adequate.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Deep understanding and previous systems leadership of group 5 unmanned aircraft and/or missile systems.
• Early previous baseline experience in any of the following disciplines you will be managing.
• 15+ years of experience in a senior role leading air vehicle programs from initial concept through test and delivery to customers
• Strong understanding of the “why” behind vehicle and systems design.
• Experience working on mission critical DOD systems
• Experience creating teams and focusing them around a common vision
• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical or Software engineering, or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed systems.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance