Senior Project Engineer - Unmanned Systems
About the job
- A bachelor's degree or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and 7+ years of test engineering experience.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required for planning and testing, including travel up to 50%.
- Previous experience in tactical networks, software development, and autonomous vehicle testing.
- Expertise and working knowledge of Department of Defense test range regulations, spectrum compliance, and Department of Defense acquisitions organizations.
- Ability to understand new concepts quickly, apply them accurately, organize, schedule, and coordinate work phases, and determine the appropriate approach at the task level or, with assistance, at the project level to solve complex problems.
- Ability to troubleshoot in high-pressure or time-sensitive situations.
- Experience with agile development software and engineering tools, including Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, GHE, and CircleCI.
- Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
- Prior experience as a test director or test conductor.
- Experience working with the Department of Defense.
- Familiarity with Linux/Unix operating systems and comfort obtaining data from software platforms using command-line tools.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team and perform complex tasks in one or more engineering areas.
- Strong leadership skills and previous experience leading a team.
- Ability to work extended hours as required.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
- Subject to pre-employment and randomized substance screening, as required by the company.
- Collaborate on integration and testing strategies to meet mission autonomy project objectives.
- Facilitate and coordinate all aspects of testing activities, including personnel, equipment, data links, test facilities, and regulatory compliance.
- Provide oversight and guidance for test and integration efforts at the system and subsystem levels.
- Communicate all facets of a test program in writing, including test plans, test procedures, test cards, and test reports.
- Work with multiple cross-departmental organizations to plan test events and lead their successful execution.
- Participate in requirements development and design reviews with engineering teams.
- Support safety review boards and test readiness reviews.
- Lead or contribute to root cause analysis teams or initiatives.
- Facilitate and create associated system documentation, including system manuals, checklists, and acceptance procedures.
- Coordinate project and test progress status, interface with program leadership, prepare and maintain technical- and tactical-level schedules and plans, and manage resource constraints.
- Work closely with government personnel to align project goals, facilitate communication, and coordinate technical reviews and deliverables.
- Observe all applicable laws, regulations, and other obligations when conducting business on behalf of the company.
- As needed, conduct test and evaluation of hardware and software, with emphasis on resource planning, stationary and dynamic vehicle testing, process improvement and development, and participation in technical test reviews.
- Establish safe operational procedures and practices.
About the company
Anduril builds autonomous weapons, such as drones, cruise missiles, and robot submarines, for the US military and its allies, often developing them with its own money before any order arrives. In 2024 it beat Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman for an Air Force contract to develop Fury, a pilotless jet that flies alongside crewed fighters. Its Lattice software merges camera and radar feeds into one live map and lets a few operators direct many drones and weapons at once, including other companies' systems. Governments buy its systems under contract, and Anduril builds much of the hardware in its own factories. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey co-founded Anduril in 2017, and it is based in Costa Mesa, California.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
Series H
Total Funding
$11.5B
Headquarters
Costa Mesa, California
Founded
2017
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What believers are saying
- Sales target almost doubles: May 2026 projections put Anduril's annual revenue at $4.3 billion, versus $2.2 billion in 2025.
- Expansion has fresh funding: Anduril raised $5 billion in May 2026, doubling its valuation to $61 billion.
- A long-term procurement path: a March 2026 Army deal allows up to $20 billion of Anduril purchases over 10 years.
What critics are saying
- Sales rest on few buyers: CEO Brian Schimpf told staff in February 2026, "We have just outrageously concentrated business."
- Systems have failed tests: a November 2025 Wall Street Journal report cited stalled drone boats and a 22-acre fire.
- Expect on-site, security-cleared work: only 33 of 2,470 open roles in October 2026 were remote; nearly two-thirds required clearance eligibility.
What makes Anduril unique
- It builds its own missile boosters: Anduril says its Mississippi plant made it America's third solid rocket motor supplier.
- Peter Thiel's firm backs it heavily: Founders Fund put $1 billion into Anduril in June 2025, its largest check ever.
- It began at the border: Customs and Border Protection runs 350-plus Sentry towers and ordered 200 more in June 2026.
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0%Anduril Industries, the defence startup founded by Oculus inventor Palmer Luckey, has won a $2.9 billion US Navy contract to build components for Virginia-class nuclear attack submarines. The company will invest $3.7 billion in a 2 million-square-foot shipyard at Sparrows Point, outside Baltimore. Called "Arsenal 2," the site will make Anduril a supplier to the two prime contractors for the submarines, Huntington Ingalls and General Dynamics. Operations are not expected to begin before 2030. Anduril already builds autonomous undersea vehicles. In 2024, it won an $18.6 million Navy contract to make Dive-LD vehicles in Rhode Island, aiming for 200 a year. The company has a private valuation of $61 billion, second only to General Dynamics among US military shipbuilders.
Gecko Robotics, Anduril to accelerate American shipbuilding with robotics, AI. October 8, 2026 (C) Gecko Robotics Gecko Robotics announced a partnership with Anduril Industries to help accelerate American shipbuilding using advanced robotics, AI-powered software, and automated quality assurance. The partnership will support Anduril's Arsenal-2, a new software-defined shipyard in Baltimore County, Maryland, announced as part of the company's $3.7 billion investment to expand production for the Virginia-class submarine program. Gecko's technology will be deployed at Anduril's new 160,000-square-foot protofactory in Orange County, California, where key submarine components will be manufactured. Working with other customers across the defense industrial base, Gecko's technology has already reduced inspection timelines for forged components by up to 90%, improving cost and schedule performance for the U.S. Navy. By embedding inspection expertise directly into software and robotics, Gecko enables workers with no prior NDT experience to become productive in as little as an hour of training, allowing manufacturers to expand qualified inspection capacity without relying solely on scarce specialist labor. As demand for submarines and other naval systems continues to rise, expanding the available workforce will be just as important as expanding production facilities. The partnership reflects a broader transformation underway across the defense industrial base. As Anduril develops software-defined production systems through ArsenalOS, Gecko provides real-time intelligence and data on physical assets that are essential for military grade manufacturing operations. Every assessment of new build components contributes to a continuously evolving digital thread that follows critical components from manufacturing through decades of operational service. That digital thread creates more than quality records. This approach also streamlines maintenance planning and reduces unplanned maintenance costs and repairs, ensuring optimal performance over the lifetime of the fleet. This lack of data and insight plagues ships around the world with unexpected downtime.
A submarine plant at a Baltimore multimodal hub: design the project-cargo handoff plan. Listen to article Logistics Industry Analysis A factory inside a port-centered logistics hub can shorten distance without simplifying execution. When inbound steel, machinery, and fabricated assemblies move among vessels, railcars, heavy-haul trailers, storage pads, and production bays, every transfer creates a new permit, equipment, security, and custody dependency. That is the operating challenge behind Anduril Industries' planned submarine-component facility at Tradepoint Atlantic in Baltimore. The project offers a useful blueprint for any manufacturer building at a multimodal industrial site: design the handoff plan before freight begins moving. Scale turns each handoff into a production decision. FreightWaves reports that Anduril plans to invest $3.7 billion in a 2 million-square-foot plant, with initial operations expected in 2030. The facility is projected to create 3,100 permanent jobs and eventually produce components ranging from torpedo tubes to submarine bows and sterns. The location is a 3,300-acre industrial complex with a deepwater terminal, a private railroad, highway access, commodity storage, and connections to CSX and Norfolk Southern. Those options are valuable, but they also multiply interfaces. A component arriving by vessel may need a crane discharge, secured laydown slot, specialized trailer, escort window, factory appointment, and final indoor lift. A missed approval at any one point can strand expensive equipment while a production sequence waits. Rail deserves a deliberate role in that design. Logistics Management found that U.S. rail carloads rose 1.5% in 2025 to 11,508,767, the largest annual gain since 2001. Through May 2026, carloads were up another 3.4% year over year, while intermodal volume reached 5,820,002 units, up 1.8%. Growing network demand makes early capacity, clearance, and interchange planning more important - not less. Build a control sheet for every movement. The project-cargo plan should start with a movement-level control sheet. It must describe the cargo's dimensions, weight, center of gravity, lifting points, sensitivity, declared value, security classification, required orientation, and allowable dwell. Attach drawings, inspection requirements, packing instructions, and approved handling methods to the same record. Then map the physical route from origin to the exact production bay. A generic destination such as "Sparrows Point" is not enough. Confirm berth and crane capability, rail clearances, bridge and pavement limits, turning radii, gate dimensions, overhead obstructions, staging capacity, indoor access, and the final set position. Survey the route again when construction changes the site. For each segment, name the responsible party and its readiness evidence: * Marine terminal: berth window, crane plan, rigging certification, stevedore roster, discharge tally, secure laydown position, and weather limits. * Rail: suitable car type, loading diagram, dimensional clearance, switching plan, interchange acceptance, securement inspection, and estimated placement time. * Road: oversize or overweight permits, approved route, travel-hour restrictions, bridge review, escorts, utility coordination, police support where required, and contingency parking. * Factory: gate appointment, receiving crew, lifting equipment, floor loading, installation sequence, quality inspection, and production release authority. No leg should be released merely because the previous carrier is ready. Release should depend on the receiving node confirming that its permits, people, space, equipment, and security controls are ready too. Treat custody as a controlled event. High-value defense components require more than a signed delivery receipt. Every transfer should capture who released the load, who accepted it, when and where the transfer occurred, seal or asset identifiers, condition evidence, and unresolved exceptions. Photographs should follow a defined checklist rather than depend on an operator's judgment. Security controls should travel with the shipment record. These may include vetted personnel, restricted routing, geofenced stops, communication intervals, escort identity, seal checks, and rules governing photography or shipment data. Access should be role-based: a carrier needs handling instructions, but not every commercial or technical detail about the component. The custody event should also transfer operational responsibility. If damage, a seal discrepancy, or missing documentation is found, the receiving party records it before acceptance. The shipment remains on hold until the designated quality or security owner decides whether it can proceed. Use milestones that protect the production sequence. Project freight cannot be managed by "in transit" and "delivered." Build milestones backward from the required-at-bay time: design release, cargo-ready confirmation, permit submission, permit approval, equipment positioning, origin pickup, terminal arrival, discharge, rail placement or road departure, site gate-in, quality acceptance, and production release. Give each milestone a planned time, latest safe time, evidence requirement, owner, and escalation path. The latest safe time matters most. It converts a delay into an actionable production risk before the final appointment is missed. Exception rules should reflect consequence. For example, escalate if a road permit is not approved 72 hours before pickup, specialized equipment is not confirmed 48 hours before use, a vessel's arrival moves outside the crane window, or custody evidence is incomplete at transfer. A constrained component tied to the next production operation should trigger a higher response tier than replenishable material for buffer stock. Recovery playbooks should be preapproved. Identify alternate staging areas, backup cranes and heavy-haul providers, secondary gates, revised shift plans, and the authority to resequence production. That preparation prevents teams from improvising commercial, safety, and security decisions under deadline pressure. Maintain one operational record in CXTMS. A multimodal handoff plan breaks down when the vessel agent, railroad, heavy-haul carrier, escort provider, terminal, and factory each keep a different version of the truth. Email chains can communicate, but they do not reliably preserve milestone ownership, approvals, or custody evidence. CXTMS can maintain one shipment record across modes and providers. Teams can attach permits and route surveys, assign appointments and milestones, record equipment and escort confirmations, capture custody events, and alert owners when the latest safe time is threatened. Operations sees the physical move, production sees material availability, and compliance sees the evidence behind every release. Baltimore's new plant will be notable for its scale, but the operating principle applies to every project-cargo program: proximity among port, rail, road, and factory creates opportunity only when the handoffs are engineered as carefully as the component itself. Request a CXTMS demo to see how multimodal project freight, milestone exceptions, and custody records can be managed in one operational workflow.
Anduril's $6.6B investment to expand US submarine industrial base. Published: Oct 07 2026, 02:30 PM IST * FB * TW * Linkdin * Whatsapp * GNFollow Us US defence firm Anduril has announced a USD 6.6 billion investment to expand the US submarine industrial base. This includes a new software-defined shipyard, Arsenal-2, in Maryland, expected to create over 3,000 direct jobs. US defence technology firm Anduril has announced a USD 6.6 billion investment to expand America's submarine industrial base, including USD 3.7 billion for a new software-defined shipyard, the company said in a release, adding, the project is estimated to create over 3,000 direct jobs. New software-defined shipyard: Arsenal-2. According to the release, US President Donald Trump announced a new software-defined shipyard backed by Anduril Industries called Arsenal-2. The facility will manufacture critical components for Virginia-class submarines, adding capacity to the US submarine industrial base as the Navy seeks to increase attack submarine production. Virginia-class submarines are built by General Dynamics Electric Boat and Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding. "President Donald J. Trump today announced Arsenal-2, a new software-defined shipyard backed by a USD 3.7 billion private capital investment by Anduril Industries. The facility will manufacture critical components for the Virginia-class submarine, adding significant new capacity to America's submarine industrial base in support of the Navy's effort to increase attack submarine production," the release said. Economic impact and job creation. The company added, Arsenal-2 will be built at Tradepoint Atlantic in Baltimore County, Maryland, where the project will create "3,100 direct jobs and support more than 11,000 indirect jobs." "The site will drive $2 billion in annual economic output, including an estimated $312 million in wages each year," the US defence firm further added. Performance-Based Navy contract. The US Navy awarded Anduril a contract of up to USD 2.9 billion, with payments tied directly to demonstrated production outcomes. "This contract structure ensures that Anduril, not the taxpayer, takes on the majority of the execution risk, aligning incentives to ensure on-time, high-quality submarine production," the company said. Boosting submarine production capacity. Together, the total amount aggregates to a USD 6.6 billion investment in America's submarine industrial base. According to the release, Arsenal-2 will manufacture complex components and large-scale assemblies for Virginia-class submarines and supply them to Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding for final assembly. The company further added that additional production source will allow more submarine construction to take place simultaneously across the industrial base, boosting overall capacity for the Virginia-class programme. (ANI) (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by Asianetnews Editorial staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) Stay updated with all the latest Business News, including market trends, Share Market News, stock updates, taxation, IPOs, banking, finance, real estate, savings, and investments. Track daily Gold Price changes, updates on DA Hike, and the latest developments on the 8th Pay Commission. Get in-depth analysis, expert opinions, and real-time updates to make informed financial decisions. Download the Asianet News Official App from the Android Play Store and iPhone App Store to stay ahead in business. 0 Comments / 0 New
Anduril has acquired Popoto Modem, a Massachusetts-based underwater acoustics company, to enhance its autonomous undersea capabilities. The acquisition addresses a critical challenge in maritime operations: traditional undersea acoustic communications equipment has been prohibitively expensive, limiting the deployment of large autonomous formations. Popoto Modem's technology enables persistent, multi-node mesh networking underwater, allowing autonomous vehicles to communicate simultaneously with each other, surface vessels, and the broader fleet. Anduril has already integrated Popoto's affordable acoustic modems into its maritime systems over the past year. The immediate focus is scaling integrations into Anduril's Copperhead family of autonomous underwater vehicles, enabling single operators to command large AUV formations. The acquisition extends Anduril's Lattice integration platform from above-water operations to subsea environments, creating an affordable communications infrastructure for deploying undersea systems at scale.