Head of Engineering (Defense OS)

Join Applied, a leading technology company, as the Head of Engineering for Defense OS. In this role, you will build and lead the DefenseOS engineering organization, focusing on the development of WarshipOS, a unified compute and data platform for the Navy. You will own the technical strategy and delivery across four key pillars, lead the zonal architecture, and set engineering best practices. This is a leadership position that requires cross-functional collaboration and communication with product, hardware, operations, customers, and senior leadership.

• Construire et diriger l'organisation d'ingénierie DefenseOS, en mettant l'accent sur le développement de WarshipOS.
• Posséder la stratégie technique et la feuille de route du produit à travers les quatre piliers de WarshipOS.
• Diriger l'architecture zonale, concevoir et déployer des contrôleurs de zone basés sur la localisation et un calcul centralisé.
• Integrating modern compute with legacy, closed subsystems. Built the gateways, adapters, and abstraction layers that connect proprietary or undocumented interfaces into a unified data plane
• Delivery under hard constraints. Ownership of the full lifecycle from requirements through deployment and sustainment under reliability, latency, safety, and field-readiness constraints, with disciplined execution in ambiguous, fast-moving programs
• Hardware / software systems fluency. Led programs spanning hardware and software (compute architecture, sensor and system integration, lab-to-platform test), enough to set direction for EE / hardware and integration leads
• Cross-functional leadership and communication with product, hardware, operations, customers, and senior leadership, including clear escalation of technical and schedule risk
• Software platform depth. Shipped complex software platforms that integrate real-time, mission- or safety-critical systems: middleware, data transport, and APIs / SDKs that unify heterogeneous subsystems behind a common data plane
• Engineering leadership at scale. Typically 12+ years in software and systems engineering with 6+ years leading engineering teams, including managing other managers and technical leads, and a track record of building and scaling a team from a small core
• Must hold or be eligible for a U.S. Secret security clearance
• Software-defined vehicles (SDVs) or analogous commercial platforms where a zonal architecture and centralized compute replaced distributed, domain-based controllers, directly transferable to a warship operating system
• Naval or maritime subsystems: combat / mission systems, shipboard communications (C5I, tactical data links, SATCOM), or HM&E
• Unmanned surface vessels (USVs) or other unmanned / autonomous platforms; familiarity with shipboard size, weight, power, and survivability constraints
• Prior naval service or fleet / operational experience
• Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles