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.
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