Product Support Engineer - Advanced Effects

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

This role is for a Product Support Engineer at Anduril, a defense technology company. The engineer will be responsible for developing and implementing sustainment strategies for defense products, including maintenance plans, technical data packages, and lifecycle management. The role requires expertise in systems engineering, product support, and familiarity with military standards, with a focus on ensuring the operational readiness and longevity of complex hardware systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and maintain comprehensive, ground-up sustainment plans for the specific product(s) you support
  2. Partner with customers, operations teams, and cross-functional engineering teams to define, implement, and continuously improve effective maintenance and repair strategies
  3. Ensure the availability of up-to-date maintenance procedures, specialized tools, and accurate technical manuals to support field sustainment operations
  4. Serve as the primary point of contact for all sustainment-related matters within your assigned product team, proactively identifying and resolving issues
  5. Collaborate with design and manufacturing engineering teams during new product development phases to integrate best sustainment practices and design-for-supportability concepts early in the process

Skills

Required

  • mechanical or systems engineering principles
  • CAD software
  • Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools
  • Integrated Product Support (IPS) elements, principles, and concepts
  • product support
  • sustainment engineering
  • systems engineering roles
  • military standards
  • specifications
  • regulatory compliance
  • dynamic, unstructured environments
  • adapt to rapidly changing priorities
  • learn and master new technologies
  • complex systems
  • synthesize complex technical and quantitative data
  • clear, concise decision statements
  • actionable recommendations

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering
  • Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA)
  • Level of Repair Analysis (LORA)
  • Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
  • Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) plans
  • customer-facing sustainment artifacts
  • contractual deliverables
  • Siemens NX
  • Teamcenter (PLM)
  • JIRA
  • Oracle (ERP)
  • complex military systems
  • robotics
  • unmanned systems
  • advanced defense technology products
  • Technical Data Package
  • drawings
  • parts lists
  • interface control documents
  • electrical schematics
  • U.S. Secret security clearance
  • travel

What the JD emphasized

  • high-rigor environment
  • military standards, specifications, and regulatory compliance