Chief Engineer, Copperhead
Quincy · Quincy, MA (QCY-01) · USD 191,000-253,000 · 15+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 15+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Quincy · Quincy, MA (QCY-01)
- Salary
- USD 191,000-253,000 · Base salary
About the role
- Lead the technical development of maritime products from concept to delivery for Anduril's Maritime Division.
- Work closely with the Strategy team and strategic opportunity customers to design requirements tied to customer inputs.
- Drive technical execution of a new surface product for Anduril Maritime while balancing innovation with practical execution.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the initial design, prototyping, capability verification, and delivery of a maritime autonomous weapon system
- Manage the initial design of the system and subsystems including system architecture development, requirements definition, system and sub-system trades and optimization, risk management etc.
- Perform systems engineering and trade analyses to enable the exploration and rapid iteration of early conceptual designs
- Coordinate closely with manufacturing and supply chain teams to ensure design for manufacturing is embedded in early concepts
- Work with senior leadership to ensure resource plans are adequate for work scope
- Oversee technical execution of the generation of a new surface product for Anduril Maritime
- Define key capabilities, milestones, and demonstrations to enable continuous development and maturation of autonomous systems
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Naval Architecture, Systems Engineering, Marine Engineering, or equivalent, or proven experience in a relevant field
- Minimum of 15 years experience with technical leadership and systems engineering on defense systems or weapon programs
- Strong Systems engineering and architecture definition background to bridge software service and hardware product developments
- Strong working understanding of how product development rolls into program acquisitions, to ensure alignment of HW/SW roadmaps and program requirements
- Strong leadership qualities and collaborative/integrative leadership demonstrated capacity
- Experience working with, defining, and fielding sensing payloads and comms architectures
- Ability to support and/or manage technological roadmaps in critical areas to enable collaborative design and capability alignment
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
- Travel 25% to Customer and Test Sites
Preferred qualifications
- Demonstrated understanding of multi-domain unmanned and autonomous weapon system development and employment
- Demonstrated engineering management capability; proven technical and personnel leadership qualities
- Experience in technical leadership of weapon or defense system programs from initial concept design through transition to full development, testing and qualification, and rate manufacture
- Strong understanding of autonomous system architecture and overall design approach for unmanned weapons systems
- Experience working on mission critical DOD systems
- Experience building and managing cross-functional teams focused around a common vision
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees supporting health, recovery, and whatever comes next
Workplace
- Travel 25% to Customer and Test Sites
Skills
- Systems Engineering
- Naval Architecture
- Marine Engineering
- System Architecture
- Requirements Definition
- Risk Management
- Prototyping
- Capability Verification
- Sensing Payloads
- Comms Architectures
