Anduril Australia Overview
Since 2022, Anduril Australia has grown rapidly, bringing world-leading software-first, hardware enabled systems to the Australian Defence Force. Our exemplar program, the Ghost Shark Extra-Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicle, is being developed and delivered in close partnership with the Australian government and sovereign Australian industry, and is fundamentally changing how subsurface capabilities can be employed by the Australian Defence Force. Likewise, Anduril Australia is looking to provide a broad range of software enabled hardware products to meet the Australian Defence Force’s needs as outlined in the 2024 National Defence Strategy.

World leading technology like Ghost Shark and many of the other autonomous systems that will underpin Australia’s technological future, rely on modern C4 systems that can integrate and fuse data across distributed systems, nodes and networks to enable timely command decision making. Anduril’s open architecture Lattice operating system is an AI-powered software platform that turns thousands of data streams into actionable information for warfighters at all levels. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the warfighters in months, not years.

Connected Warfare is one of Anduril's Business Lines focused on building a next-gen software-defined distributed C2 architecture focused on orchestrating and automating 3rd party combat-fielded sensors and strike-networks for synchronized joint operations. We work with mission partners and operators to deploy reliable and robust capabilities on operationally-relevant fielding timelines to meet complex challenges across the military.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of Anduril’s flagship hardware and software products in support of customer missions. You will:

• Lead and work with a diverse team of engineers around the world, with opportunities to grow a local team
• Work with multiple internal and external partners to ensure customers receive best-in-class products
• Build and integrate various external software and hardware products into Anduril products
• Derive and communicate requirements from multiple customers and partners, operating in complex and challenging environments

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
• High ownership and autonomy across the end-to-end lifecycle of software development. Strong technical acumen to deliver high-quality code in a disconnected environment.
• A deep, demonstrated understanding of how computers and networks work, from a single desktop to a multi-cluster cloud node.
• At least 7+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Go, Rust, C++, Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc.
• Experience with customer-oriented UI/UX development.
• Experience building scalable backend software systems with various data storage and processing requirements.
• Experience with industry standard cloud platforms (ideally GCP, OCI), CI/CD tools, and software infrastructure fundamentals (networking, security, distributed systems).
• Experience leading small teams of cross functional engineers to design, build, and deploy software systems.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases.
• Current Australian Government NV2 Security Clearance is mandatory
• Able to work across multiple timezones, primarily Australia Eastern and Pacific

ABOUT THE TEAM

We are seeking an experienced international trade compliance leader to help build a best-in-class trade compliance program supporting the EMEA/APAC region. The International Trade Compliance team is responsible for providing strategic, high-level trade compliance advice and guidance to internal business and engineering teams as well as owning day-to-day tactical execution. Anduril is a fast-growing defence products company at the early stages of growth. Consistent with this fast growth, members of Anduril’s ITC team must be resourceful, creative, and eager to take ownership of complex matters.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for International Trade Compliance Leader to join our rapidly growing team in Sydney. In this role, you will be responsible for driving international trade controls and policies to protect and guide the development of commercial dual-use and defence technology across the APAC region, as an expert in applicable US and non-US export control laws and regulations. The role will be a key interface between engineering, program management, compliance, and senior leadership to ensure that product teams are in line with engineering goals and compliance frameworks. This person will be responsible for designing and managing controls plans for commercial dual-use and defence platforms across the region and ensuring compliance with U.S. and global export control regulations. You will provide strategic guidance and regulatory expertise, achieving positive outcomes supporting Anduril’s global growth objectives.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design and implement trade compliance policies, protections, and infrastructure to ensure engineering/ program development meets schedule objectives, consistent with ITAR, EAR, and local country laws/regulations of EU, UK, or Australia.
• Coordinate with external partners (e.g., customers, suppliers, in-region government agencies, etc.) to ensure product roadmaps align with internal compliance posture and pivot accordingly
• Develop country-specific classification decision rationale, heuristics and methodology for Anduril programs to improve efficiency in classification while maintaining accuracy
• Leverage AI for rapid risk-mitigated determinations
• Support the release of technology and data to internal and external stakeholders
• Deploy and maintain country-specific J/C training curricula and robust methodologies to meet cost and performance metrics
• Apply for and manage country-specific export authorizations, when required
• Oversee country-specific export authorizations, ensuring compliance with license scope, provisos and associated conditions
• Support the logistics team on hardware exports and imports as appropriate
• Provide guidance and training to Anduril regional teams on ITAR, EAR and country-specific regulations as appropriate
• Perform compliance assessments, identifying and mitigating compliance risks, of export/import authorizations and related transactions and assist in any investigations of potential compliance issues
• Lead working groups, independent projects, and collaborative efforts with within the compliance function or cross-functionally driving ITC program enhancements
• Support and implement corrective actions that result from compliance issues
• Navigate co-production, co-development, and offset projects across multiple countries, ensuring compliance with US export regulations and country-specific trade laws
• Manage Defence export portal for license applications, tracking, and reporting (RR)
• Evaluate and review commodities, including hardware, software, and technical data, for export license eligibility under AUKUS and other international trade control frameworks
• Communicate and collaborate with regulators and outside counsel to address export compliance matters
• Stay updated on regulatory changes and export compliance requirements, providing timely insights and guidance to leadership
• Provide guidance on the use of collaborative environments for sharing technical information across borders

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to travel +25%
• Understanding of engineering concepts across software and hardware and development principles to be able to craft policies and procedures to segregate commercial and export controlled technology development
• Strong understanding of the U.S. and non-U.S. export regulations, including relevant classifications pertaining to aerospace parts, electronics, computers, IT equipment, encryption technology, and navigational hardware, etc.
• +10 years experience in product development, defence technology, startups, defence contracting or similar
• +5 years experience in trade compliance, international trade controls, international contracts management
• A superpower for smashing through regulatory roadblocks
• Ability to obtain and maintain a NV2 Security Clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with AUKUS partnership frameworks, including export compliance, license management, and cross-border collaboration requirements
• Experience with customs and import filings, including managing Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), temporary imports, and processing ATA Carnets for duty-free and tax-free international transactions
• Experience in group 3-5 UAS, UUVs, or robotic systems product development or concepts
• Experience working with or supporting government contracts
• Experience in managing development infrastructure and training technical teams
• Experience designing and implementing technology control plans
• An understanding of the distinctives and intersection of Lean Product and Process Development, Agile Software Development, and Lean Production
• Knowledge of exportability considerations and experience incorporating export control compliance into product development plans
• Understanding of Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) guidelines

Note that this is an onsite role based in of one of our offices in Sydney, Melbourne or Canberra.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Technical Project Manager on the Connected Warfare team, you will be a technical leader spearheading initiatives into a new market. Your work will span the entire lifecycle of our efforts from engaging with customers, shaping technical requirements, integrating third party systems, and final delivery. This will require solving a wide variety of technical problems and making pragmatic engineering versus programmatic tradeoffs along the way. You will often be expected to self-direct, and to be comfortable navigating ambiguity. Above all, our engineers are driven by a “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering & programmatic decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on-time, and with high quality.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

1. Technical Ownership: Own technical outcomes from end to end. Iterate on core data mesh technology to make optimal use of degraded networks. Develop connectors and APIs for legacy and cutting edge systems to integrate with Lattice. Create data flow pipelines that span horizontally and vertically across disparate networked systems and security domains. Mentor junior engineers from differing backgrounds.
2. Technical Execution: Develop the technical path for success of new efforts from conception onwards by writing & reviewing project plans and design documents, before spinning up the broader team to execute. Regularly engage with external stakeholders, particularly customers, to surface and clarify pain points and solve problems related to both day-to-day execution and overall technical programmatics.
3. Navigating Ambiguity: Execute on broad, ambiguous, and ambitious requirements from external customers. Seize the opportunity to shape requirements in favor of the optimal product for the client and the company. Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work.
4. Shape Growth Opportunities: Support the drafting of technical proposals, ensuring that potential projects and scaling opportunities are accurately scoped, resourced, and aligned with the organization's capabilities and strategic goals.
5. Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary technical liaison for the client, go deep into understanding their specific mission challenges and advocate for their needs within the engineering organization and ensure their feedback directly influences the engineering roadmap. Resolves technical conflicts between the team, internal stakeholders and the customer.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven customer-facing technical program management experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domains. With the ability to create and maintain professional relationships with senior level Japanese customers and partners.
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams.
• Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to travel to client sites (50%)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or an Engineering discipline
• Experience managing mission critical systems in operational environments
• Between 1-2 years previous experience as a technical lead or technical program manager
• Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams to successful completion of projects
• Desire to grow into a Tech-Lead-Manager role, with responsibility for line management of engineers, in addition to delivery