Mission Systems Lead

Description:

• Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system for a new maritime platform.
• Partner with the Vehicle Software team to define interfacing requirements between the Vehicle Management System and Mission System stacks.
• Drive architecture selection and system design for robotic mission systems, including hardware, compute, storage, network architecture, and service orchestration.
• Contribute to the roadmap for mission system integration into maritime platforms, including the software inputs needed to support it.
• Lead teams developing software that runs on-platform and off-platform across a variety of technologies.
• Design and implement development processes for initial delivery and iterative mission software releases, including full lifecycle testing.
• Create test and simulation fixtures that support both software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop validation.
• Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment activities.
• Lead and mentor multi-disciplinary engineering teams, including Senior Software Engineers from different backgrounds.
• Leverage internal engineering teams to deliver new capability beyond current platform scope with a clear path for architecture and capability evolution.
• Travel up to 25% of the time to co-locate with end users and other teams.

Requirements:

• Experience in a senior role delivering a military mission system.
• Experience developing and sustaining distributed software platform and application architectures under dynamic network topologies.
• Experience with modeling and simulation.
• Experience developing high-assurance, safety-critical software.
• Experience developing comprehensive unit tests and regression tests.
• Deep understanding of autonomous weapons systems, including payload capabilities and commercial and military mission sets.
• Experience across the product delivery lifecycle, including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.
• Familiarity with vehicle management systems.
• Familiarity with systems engineering concepts.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field, or equivalent experience (preferred).
• Experience in a leadership position within a high-performing technology organization (preferred).
• Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and optimization (preferred).
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems (preferred).
• Ability to work holistically across the software stack and through the full lifecycle from design to sustainment (preferred).
• Ability to act as technical owner for an entire mission system, including stakeholder and customer engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution (preferred).
• Ability to learn and grow individually while mentoring senior team members and building team cohesion (preferred).
• 5+ years of operational experience with autonomous maritime systems (preferred).

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary of $191,000 to $253,000 USD.
• Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage at little to no cost for U.S. roles.
• Full employer-paid medical insurance premiums for employees and dependents in the UK and Australia, and an annual health insurance contribution in Ireland.
• Life and disability insurance coverage for all employees.
• Highly competitive PTO with a holiday hiatus in December and caregiver/wellness leave.
• Family planning and parenting support, including fertility, adoption, and gestational carrier coverage.
• Free 24/7 mental health resources, including therapy and life coaching, plus legal and financial support services.
• Annual reimbursement for professional development.
• Company-funded commuter benefits based on region.
• Relocation assistance available depending on role eligibility.
• Retirement savings options, including 401(k), Roth, and after-tax plans for U.S. roles, pension with employer match for UK and IE roles, and superannuation for AUS roles.