Mission Systems Lead, Omen

Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · USD 253,000-336,000 · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 14, 2026

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Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Systems Lead to join the Omen team at the Costa Mesa HQ.
You will lead a technical team in the development and integration of Omen's Mission Systems, from initial concept through delivery, encompassing mission perception, mission autonomy, and payload systems.

Own customer success through the design and delivery of fully operational mission systems for a new Anduril platform, covering Mission Perception, Mission Autonomy, and Payloads.
Build and lead the Mission Systems team, hiring and managing multi-disciplinary engineers while mentoring Junior and Senior Software Engineers.
Define and own the technical roadmap for Omen Mission Systems across short, medium, and long term horizons.
Own the software stack that enables Omen to autonomously execute customer defined missions, including a lifecycle toolchain covering mission design, planning, operation, and debrief.
Own integration of payload modules with the host vehicle mission system stack, including power, bandwidth, timing, and autonomy interfaces.
Own sensing and world model development, and safe and assured navigation, including operation in GPS-denied conditions and recovery to moving or austere landing sites.
Lead demonstrations of Autonomy, Payload operations, and Perception kits in increasingly representative environments from the lab to surrogates to Omen.
Partner with the Vehicle Software team on interfacing requirements between the Vehicle Management System and Mission System stacks.
Drive architecture selection and design for robotic mission systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture.
Define and own the payload interface control documents (ICDs) governing integration with third-party and government-furnished payload vendors.

Experience as a Senior or staff robotics or software development engineer
Experience managing engineering teams within a high performing technology organization
Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures, running under dynamic network topologies
Experience with Python and modern systems/application programming languages (e.g., C++, Rust)
Deep understanding of autonomous systems, inclusive of perception and payload capabilities across commercial and military mission sets
Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment
Familiarity with vehicle management systems and Systems Engineering concepts, including requirements traceability and ICDs
Familiarity with modular open systems approaches and standard interface protocols for air vehicle mission systems
Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
Experience with high assurance safety critical software, modeling and simulation, and comprehensive unit, integration, and regression test suites
Experience delivering perception, world modeling, or assured navigation capability for autonomous vehicles in GPS-denied environments
Experience building mission planning, operator control, or post-mission debrief tooling for uncrewed systems
Experience integrating third-party or government-furnished payloads into a new host platform, including ICD negotiation with external vendors
Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
Track record of mentoring senior engineers, building team cohesion and capacity
Operational experience with autonomous air systems, ideally Group 3 or shipboard/expeditionary launch and recovery

Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers
Top-tier benefits for full-time employees supporting health, recovery, and whatever comes next

Travel to support test events, vendor collaboration, end-user engagements and/or co-locate with other teams up to 25% of the time.