Hazard Zone Deployment Lead, Air Defense

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Irvine, CA · AFS : Air Defense Engineering : Mission Operations

This role is for a Deployment Lead on an Air Defense team at Anduril, a defense technology company. The team builds systems to detect and neutralize aerial threats. The lead is responsible for delivering and sustaining deployed capabilities in hazardous zones, managing deployment planning and execution, building customer relationships, developing deep mission and product expertise, and ensuring system performance. The role requires technical work experience, project management skills, experience leading tech-enabled teams, interest in national security, and active security clearances.

What you'd actually do

  1. Deployment planning and execution: We execute hundreds of deployment events each year, including site installations, test and evaluation exercises, demonstrations, and training and maintenance visits. You will orchestrate these events, leading a cross-functional team that spans hardware supply, logistics, engineering, and more to do whatever it takes to achieve mission success for Anduril and our customers. Meticulous, resourceful, and detailed-oriented, you will manage every step of the deployment process, from site survey to testing, pack-out, installation, training, and sustainment. No job is too small. You consistently demonstrate extraordinary judgment, grit, and composure in high-pressure situations. You anticipate every contingency, build lightweight processes, soberly assess and mitigate risk, and deliberately learn from your experiences to continuously improve.
  2. Relationship management: Operate independently in a high risk environment. Build trust with customers, industry partners, users, and Anduril teammates through effective communication, positive attitude, and follow-through. With careful listening and observation, you internalize your counterpart’s priorities and requirements. With empathy and responsiveness, you quickly build rapport, trust, and confidence in our capability. You develop relationships across the organization and communicate honestly and directly. You are committed to giving and receiving feedback well. Your partners always know what you expect from them, and know exactly what to expect from you.
  3. Mission expertise: Develop a deep knowledge of your customer’s mission requirements, including the nature of the threats they face, regulatory challenges, resource constraints, rules of engagement, and more. You will become a subject matter expert and the voice of the customer, capable of effectively communicating requirements and CONOPS to Anduril engineers so they can continue to enhance our capability to meet evolving mission needs. You are deeply motivated to shape the future of air defense.
  4. Product expertise: Develop a thorough understanding of the capabilities and limitations of Anduril’s Family of Systems. You are innately curious about the technology underpinning our capability, and are not satisfied with a superficial understanding of how and why it works. You are constantly educating yourself about the strengths and weaknesses of different sensor modalities, the challenges of sensor fusion, power and networking requirements, and more. You will become an opinionated power user who can reliably forecast how our capability will perform against a broad range of threat profiles, environmental conditions, and mission constraints.

Skills

Required

  • Advanced STEM degree or 4+ years of technical work experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domain
  • Highly organized creative problem-solver with proven project management skills
  • Proven experience leading tech-enabled teams of peers while building a culture of influence through relationships
  • Deep interest in national security issues and defense technologies, with a commitment to lifelong learning
  • Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
  • Willing to travel up to 50% of the year
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance

What the JD emphasized

  • Hazard Zones
  • mission critical capabilities
  • UAS threats
  • rigorous operational execution
  • high-pressure situations
  • high risk environment
  • regulatory challenges
  • active U.S. Secret security clearance
  • active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance

Other signals

  • AI-powered operating system
  • autonomy
  • AI
  • computer vision
  • sensor fusion
  • customer-facing deployment
  • mission critical capabilities