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Mission Operations Engineer, Maritime

Anduril · Costa Mesa, California, United States · On-site

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About Anduril

Anduril Industries builds advanced autonomous systems and defense technology to protect US and allied forces. Creating the future of national security through AI, robotics, and cutting-edge engineering. Backed by General Catalyst, Lightspeed and a16z.

About the role

Our next Mission Operations Engineer has built and executed plans in the maritime domain, has stood watch, and has been to sea, preferably using uncrewed systems. That background is what separates an analytic product that operators recognize as real from one that reads well and gets ignored. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience supporting maritime, undersea, or autonomous systems mission areas, experience across air, surface, C2, ISR, fires, or logistics is also valued
  • 5+ years of maritime operational planning experience — building, staffing, and executing operational or campaign plans in the maritime domain at a unit, strike group, numbered fleet, MOC, or component command level
  • Experience tactically employing AUV capabilities or equivalent autonomous system experience including water space coordination in the undersea domain
  • Ability to decompose ambiguous operational problems into structured executable strategies at the tactical level
  • Strong understanding of maritime missions, operational concepts, threat-informed planning, and the relationship between technology and warfighting outcomes
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce executive-level briefings
More about this role

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.

At Anduril, we are developing unmanned systems for subsurface, surface, land, and air domains that will leverage unsupervised autonomy for the delivery of multi-mission capability to our customers. Deciding what to build — and in what order — requires people who can connect operational problems, threat-informed scenarios, customer needs, and product employment concepts to the capability we field. We are looking for a Mission Operations Engineer to do that work at the...

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