Product Operations Technical Specialist

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Programs : Deployments

This role supports the operations of Anduril's Ghost UAS platform, focusing on end-user support, field failure mitigation, and system improvements. The specialist will triage, diagnose, and resolve product incidents, analyze system failure data, and communicate with customers and internal teams to ensure the availability and reliability of deployed capabilities. While the company utilizes AI and autonomy, this role is primarily focused on product operations and support rather than direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Sustain Anduril's Ghost deployments by combining an understanding of our customers' missions with familiarity of our products and delivered capabilities
  2. Triage, diagnose and root cause product incidents, driving postmortem actions including providing status visibility through resolution. Then abstract incidents and optimize wider system and product reliability. This will include conducting log reviews and diagnostics, as well as utilizing Linux and command line tools for system management and issue resolution
  3. Consistently assess and seek to improve the quality of the fleet's observability and health telemetry in partnership with multiple functions across the Ghost team
  4. Collect, organize, and analyze system failure data to define trends, drive proactive sustainment processes, and support resource allocation
  5. Support Anduril's global customers through proactive communications and detail-oriented execution. You will track and manage customer-facing incidents and concerns, ensuring timely response, mitigation, and communication of resolution.

Skills

Required

  • Demonstrated experience as a self-starter, able to find and resolve issues on your own
  • Strong aptitude for problem solving in unstructured situations at the interface of hardware, software, and networking
  • Proven ability to master a technical system and support it in operational environments
  • Daily practice of excellence and rigor
  • Confident with navigating ambiguity and crafting new ways of doing things
  • Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret Security clearance

Nice to have

  • Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana, and Pager Duty
  • Exposure to software development tooling such as Jira
  • Experience in unix-like shell such as Bash or Zsh
  • Experience with Palantir Foundry to support data-driven decision making
  • Experience supporting and/or performing incident driven workflows requiring analysis, triage, and prioritization
  • Experience in on-call support operations and working in limited risk tolerance environments
  • DOD, Law Enforcement, or other Government agency experience preferred
  • Willingness to work non-standard hours and weekends as needed
  • 1+ year of customer/technical support experience with a focus on final-tier customer concern support
  • Defense and/or STEM background

What the JD emphasized

  • drive challenging and vague technical problems to clarity and resolution
  • Must demonstrate an innate drive to be self-sufficient across the depth and breadth of a technical system
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret Security clearance