Engineering Manager, Edge Compute and Communications

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Connected Warfare Division builds mission-critical systems that enable global command and control for time-sensitive, multi-domain operations. By fusing robotics, sensor networks, and advanced software, we create high-performance, resilient software for autonomous systems and interconnected mesh ecosystems that empower our military partners with a comprehensive source of truth for rapid decision-making. 

The Edge Compute and Comms (ECC) Engineering team, you will rapidly prototype and create new products and solutions to address a wide variety of customer problems involving software, hardware, networking, autonomy/robotics, systems integration, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. You will work on new technology introduction and enhancing products like the Menace Family of Systems to bring integrated C4 (Compute, Comms, Command, and Control) capabilities to the tactical edge.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As an Engineering Manager for the Edge Compute and Communication group, you will lead a high-performing team that leverages cutting-edge technologies like Rust and C++ to deliver complex, high-impact software systems that operate with extreme efficiency and reliability at the tactical edge. You’ll be instrumental in shaping architectures optimized for resource-constrained environments, ensuring seamless communication and compute across our distributed network. You will be responsible for building the team’s culture, driving execution, and ensuring software quality and mission success. You’ll partner with cross-functional leadership—including seasoned engineers and product managers—to balance rapid delivery with robust, scalable architecture, always anchoring decisions in the realities of connected warfare.

A Note on This Role: This is an Engineering Manager role focused on both technical (opinionated about architecture, reliability, performance and quality, especially for low-level systems programming and distributed edge deployments) and non-technical (people, process, and project leadership).

What You’ll Do

• Lead & Mentor: Manage and grow a team of 10–15 engineers, fostering a high-performance, high-integrity culture focused on mission-critical delivery and rapid iteration. Drive the adoption of best-in-class systems programming practices, emphasizing performance, memory safety, and concurrent design patterns.
• Strategic Partnership: Collaborate closely with product, mission systems, and technical leadership to define team objectives, prioritize work streams, and align with broader Connected Warfare initiatives.
• Drive Execution: Ensure the timely and reliable delivery of complex software projects by removing impediments, providing the necessary resources, and promoting agile methodologies.
• Stakeholder Liaison: Serve as the primary conduit between your team and senior leadership, communicating status updates, managing expectations, and advocating for your team’s needs.
• Technical Ownership: Supervise and monitor architecture, design, and implementation of features for high-performance, low-latency edge applications, ensuring they meet stringent quality standards and customer requirements.
• Drive technical excellence in areas like memory safety (Rust), concurrency, inter-process communication, and hardware-software interface design. Assist engineers in solving complex reliability, performance, and operational issues inherent in distributed, real-time systems.
• Quality & Process Ownership: Champion best practices in software design, code reviews, testing for embedded deployments, and CI/CD processes to ensure robust, scalable, and maintainable systems that are mission-ready.
• Cross-F