Deputy Chief Engineer, Discovery

Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States; Waltham, Massachusetts, United States; Washington

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Company
Anduril Industries
Location
Costa Mesa, California, United States; Waltham, Massachusetts, United States; Washington
Salary
$191,000 — $253,000
Posted
October 2, 2026

About this job

As Deputy Chief Engineer in Discovery, you lead the technical work on concepts nobody has proven, usually several at once. You learn whatever domain each one lives in and build the thing that tests it: the prototype, the test article, the demonstration. Analysis gets a concept to the point where it is worth building; building it is how we find out. You are the technical authority for the concepts you own: you set the approach, review the work, and decide, on the evidence, which concepts continue and which stop. The problems change; the approach does not: reason from first principles, build it, test it, and reach a solution. You are not hired for a particular skill set.…

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