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International Trade Compliance Leader - APAC
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Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. 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 military in months, not years.
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.
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
Benefits
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams
Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.
To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:
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No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.
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Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.
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What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to contact@anduril.com. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.
Data Privacy
To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/.
By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security.
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GNC Engineer (Guidance, Navigation, and Control Systems)
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STR is looking for a GNC Algorithms expert to be part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers and engineers dedicated to developing cutting-edge technologies with significant and immediate impact on our national security. We believe that each employee has a unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives that are essential to providing our customers with innovative solutions to difficult national security challenges. Our culture takes pride in developing impactful technologies through collaborative teamwork while maintaining the highest standards of craftsmanship and quality.
We are looking for a GNC Engineer with versatile skills in aerospace guidance, navigation and control systems technology. Areas of particular interest includes advanced filtering and estimation techniques, flight control system design, and/or aerospace systems modeling. A successful candidate will join a team of algorithm and software developers in a fast-paced and results-driven prototyping environment.
We encourage applicants who are proficient at programming in at least one high-level programming language (e.g. C/C++, Python and/or MATLAB) for building models and algorithmic technologies in support of system analysis and development. In our view, the development of these models and technologies is benefited by sound understanding and hands-on experience with implementing guidance and control systems hardware.
What you will do:
- Developing advanced control system algorithms for aerospace applications
- Developing algorithms for sensor and system research and threat analysis
- Developing and analyzing aerospace GNC systems, including both hardware and software
- Implementing models and algorithms in in Python, C/C++, and/or MATLAB
- Working in small teams of highly skilled developers in the above areas
- Participating in laboratory and field tests to collect and analyze experimental data to support the verification, validation, and improvement of technical solutions
- Communicating technical ideas and implementations through reports and presentations
Who you are:
- This position requires an Active Top Secret security clearance, for which U.S. citizenship is needed by U.S. Government.
- M.S. in Aerospace, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field, or B.S. + 3 years equivalent experience
- Proficiency in C/C++, Python and/or MATLAB
- Experience in implementing aerospace control algorithms, filters and models
- Experience developing and giving technical presentations
Nice to Have:
- Familiarity with software build and scripting tools, CI/CD development practices
- Understanding of orbital and flight dynamics and modeling of such systems
- Experience with Kalman filtering and related techniques
- Experience using collaborative source code management tools (Git, Subversion)
- Experience building, operating and analyzing GNSS systems
- Experience in implementing guidance, navigation and control systems hardware and sensors
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $112,000 - $154,000
The salary range listed is based on external market data. Offers are based on factors, such as but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, education, training, key skills/critical skills, security clearances, and prevailing market and business conditions.
STR is a growing technology company with locations near Boston, MA, Arlington, VA, near Dayton, OH, Melbourne, FL, and Carlsbad, CA. We specialize in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security in: cyber; next generation sensors, radar, sonar, communications, and electronic warfare; and artificial intelligence algorithms and analytics to make sense of the complexity that is exploding around us.
STR is committed to creating a collaborative learning environment that supports deep technical understanding and recognizes the contributions and achievements of all team members. Our work is challenging, and we go home at night knowing that we pushed the envelope of technology and made the world safer.
STR is not just any company. Our people, culture, and attitude along with their unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives put us on a trajectory to change the world. We can't do it alone, though - we need fellow trailblazers. If you are one, join our team and help to keep our society safe! Visit us at www.str.us for more info.
STR is an equal opportunity employer. We are fully dedicated to hiring the most qualified candidate regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any portion of the employment process, email us at appassist@str.us and provide your contact info.
Pursuant to applicable federal law and regulations, positions at STR require employees to obtain national security clearances and satisfy the requirements for compliance with export control and other applicable laws.
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STR is looking for a GNC Algorithms expert to be part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers and engineers dedicated to developing cutting-edge technologies with significant and immediate impact on our national security. We believe that each employee has a unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives that are essential to providing our customers with innovative solutions to difficult national security challenges. Our culture takes pride in developing impactful technologies through collaborative teamwork while maintaining the highest standards of craftsmanship and quality.
We are looking for a GNC Engineer with versatile skills in aerospace guidance, navigation and control systems technology. Areas of particular interest includes advanced filtering and estimation techniques, flight control system design, and/or aerospace systems modeling. A successful candidate will join a team of algorithm and software developers in a fast-paced and results-driven prototyping environment.
We encourage applicants who are proficient at programming in at least one high-level programming language (e.g. C/C++, Python and/or MATLAB) for building models and algorithmic technologies in support of system analysis and development. In our view, the development of these models and technologies is benefited by sound understanding and hands-on experience with implementing guidance and control systems hardware.
What you will do:
- Developing advanced control system algorithms for aerospace applications
- Developing algorithms for sensor and system research and threat analysis
- Developing and analyzing aerospace GNC systems, including both hardware and software
- Implementing models and algorithms in in Python, C/C++, and/or MATLAB
- Working in small teams of highly skilled developers in the above areas
- Participating in laboratory and field tests to collect and analyze experimental data to support the verification, validation, and improvement of technical solutions
- Communicating technical ideas and implementations through reports and presentations
Who you are:
- This position requires an Active Top Secret security clearance, for which U.S. citizenship is needed by U.S. Government.
- M.S. in Aerospace, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field, or B.S. + 3 years equivalent experience
- Proficiency in C/C++, Python and/or MATLAB
- Experience in implementing aerospace control algorithms, filters and models
- Experience developing and giving technical presentations
Nice to Have:
- Familiarity with software build and scripting tools, CI/CD development practices
- Understanding of orbital and flight dynamics and modeling of such systems
- Experience with Kalman filtering and related techniques
- Experience using collaborative source code management tools (Git, Subversion)
- Experience building, operating and analyzing GNSS systems
- Experience in implementing guidance, navigation and control systems hardware and sensors
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $112,000 - $154,000
The salary range listed is based on external market data. Offers are based on factors, such as but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, education, training, key skills/critical skills, security clearances, and prevailing market and business conditions.
STR is a growing technology company with locations near Boston, MA, Arlington, VA, near Dayton, OH, Melbourne, FL, and Carlsbad, CA. We specialize in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security in: cyber; next generation sensors, radar, sonar, communications, and electronic warfare; and artificial intelligence algorithms and analytics to make sense of the complexity that is exploding around us.
STR is committed to creating a collaborative learning environment that supports deep technical understanding and recognizes the contributions and achievements of all team members. Our work is challenging, and we go home at night knowing that we pushed the envelope of technology and made the world safer.
STR is not just any company. Our people, culture, and attitude along with their unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives put us on a trajectory to change the world. We can't do it alone, though - we need fellow trailblazers. If you are one, join our team and help to keep our society safe! Visit us at www.str.us for more info.
STR is an equal opportunity employer. We are fully dedicated to hiring the most qualified candidate regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any portion of the employment process, email us at appassist@str.us and provide your contact info.
Pursuant to applicable federal law and regulations, positions at STR require employees to obtain national security clearances and satisfy the requirements for compliance with export control and other applicable laws.
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Commercial Contract Manager
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Out client, a global leader in the manufacturing, defense and aerospace industries is seeking a skilled commercial contracts manager to support thier Sydney or Melbourne based team on an interim basis. Ideal candidates will have 6-10 years of contracts management experience, with exceptional stakeholder management skills and experience supporting on large construction or manufacturing projects.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the contract lifecycle working closely with internal stakeholders, including sales, legal, and finance teams, to ensure the successful execution of contracts and compliance with company policies and applicable laws and regulations.
- Negotiate commercial terms driving successful business outcomes and mitigating legal risks.
- Maintain accurate and up to date contract records and documentation.
- Handle contract disputes and provide guidance on dispute resolution.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of contracts management experience
- Strong knowledge of contract law and commercial terms and conditions
Excellent communication and negotiation skills - Ability to analyze and interpret terms and conditions
- Attention to detail and ability to work across functions
- Solid analytical skills and strong business acumen
Why Join Axiom?
- Flexibility: Choose assignments that fit your lifestyle and career goals.
- Professional Growth: Continue to develop your expertise through diverse projects.
- Community: Reconnect with a network of forward-thinking legal professionals.
- Impact: Contribute to impactful work with leading global organizations.
Compensation, Benefits & Location:
This role offers a highly competitive compensation and benefits package in the alternative legal services marketplace, that includes health benefits, pension and more. Axiomites also get access to professional development resources and learning and development programs. Axiomites predominately work remotely, with the exception that some clients require on-site presence.
Axiom is the global leader in high-calibre, on-demand legal talent. Covering North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC, we enable legal departments to drive efficiency and growth and meet the demands of today’s business landscape with best in breed alterative legal services.
Axiom is a leader in diversity, inclusion, and social engagement. Diversity is core to our values and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be named a best place to work for LGBTQ+ Equality, earning top marks in the 2021 Corporate Equality Index for the second consecutive year. Axiom’s legal department is Mansfield certified and is committed to considering at least 50% diverse candidates for leadership roles and outside counsel representation.
Learn more about working at Axiom.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Axiom ensures equal employment opportunity in recruitment and employment, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religious creed or belief, political opinion, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, age, disability, alienage or citizenship status, marital (or civil or other partnership recognized by law) status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation, military service, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Axiom prohibits and will not tolerate any such discrimination or harassment.
We understand that many legal professionals have chosen to adopt the consultancy model, and we are happy to discuss this option with you. We offer both consultants and employees the opportunity to work with our enviable client roster. Contact us in complete confidence to find out more about opportunities to work with Axiom as an employee or consultant.
Accommodation for Individuals with Disabilities: Upon request and consistent with applicable laws, Axiom will provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities who require an accommodation to participate in each stage of the recruitment process. To request an accommodation to complete the application form, please contact us at benefits@axiomlaw.com and include “Applicant Accommodation” in the subject line.
Axiom respects your privacy. For an explanation of the kind of information we collect about you and how it is used, our full privacy notice is available at https://www.axiomlaw.com/privacy-notice.
Employment with Axiom may be contingent upon successful completion of a background check, providing proof of identity, and possessing the necessary legal authorization to work.
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