Systems Specialist, Mission Readiness

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

This role is for a Systems Specialist in Mission Readiness at Anduril, a defense technology company. The primary focus is on day-to-day transactional work and tier-1 tooling support for global deployment operations, including processing sales orders, RMAs, inventory moves, and asset transactions. The role also involves serving as the first point of contact for issues with digital tools and systems used by the deployment team, ensuring clean data and accurate system records.

What you'd actually do

  1. Intake, process, and close transactional requests across Deployment Operations, including sales order fulfillments, RMAs (customer returns), inventory moves, cycle-count corrections, and asset transactions
  2. Execute sales order fulfillments end-to-end in the ERP, including picking confirmations, shipment creation, serial/lot capture, and invoicing hand-offs
  3. Open, track, and close RMAs, ensuring accurate disposition, warranty coding, and inventory receipt
  4. Monitor and respond to transactional requests and tickets in Jira, Current, and related systems within defined SLAs, following established runbooks and SOPs
  5. Serve as tier-1 support for bugs and issues across the deployment team's digital tools and systems — reproduce the issue, capture context, create and tag tickets, triage severity, and escalate to the Digital Tools and Process project and program managers for resolution

Skills

Required

  • Associate's or Bachelor's degree, relevant technical certifications, or equivalent hands-on experience
  • 2+ years of experience in operations, logistics, order management, help desk, customer service, or a similar execution- or support-oriented environment
  • Comfortable learning and working across multiple business systems (ERP, ticketing, CRM) and reconciling information between them
  • Exposure to creating or working tickets in Jira, ServiceNow, Salesforce Service Cloud, or a similar ticketing system
  • Strong attention to detail and a track record of processing work accurately under deadline pressure
  • Ability to follow established procedures and runbooks while knowing when to escalate

Nice to have

  • Hands-on exposure to executing transactions in an ERP (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle) or similar business system
  • Familiarity with ticketing and business systems such as Salesforce, Jira, ServiceNow, or NetSuite
  • Experience processing RMAs or reverse logistics transactions in a hardware or technical services environment
  • Exposure to military, government, or defense/aerospace operations, including serialized asset tracking and export-controlled shipments
  • Basic proficiency with Excel/Sheets to self-serve quick data checks
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Detail-oriented with a customer-focused mindset
  • Willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment

What the JD emphasized

  • transactional work
  • tier-1 tooling support
  • intake, process, and close out the day-to-day transactions
  • first point of contact for bugs, issues, and requests hitting the digital tools and systems
  • execute transactions cleanly
  • drive tickets to rapid resolution or escalation
  • keep the documentation behind that work current
  • critical link between physical reality and digital records
  • clean data, closed tickets, and getting it right the first time
  • transactional requests
  • sales order fulfillments
  • RMAs
  • inventory moves
  • asset transactions
  • picking confirmations
  • shipment creation
  • serial/lot capture
  • invoicing hand-offs
  • warranty coding
  • inventory receipt
  • transactional requests and tickets
  • defined SLAs
  • established runbooks and SOPs
  • tier-1 support for bugs and issues
  • reproduce the issue
  • capture context
  • create and tag tickets
  • triage severity
  • escalate to the Digital Tools and Process project and program managers
  • create and manage tickets on behalf of users
  • nothing gets lost
  • every request is trackable
  • maintain accurate records
  • ERP, WMS, and deployment digital tooling
  • every transaction is traceable and audit-ready
  • reconcile discrepancies between physical and system state
  • flag root causes to project managers for systemic fixes
  • keep knowledge base articles, SOPs, and training aids up to date
  • surface recurring issues, rework, and manual workarounds
  • fed into the Digital Tools and Process roadmap
  • partner cross-functionally
  • unblock holds on orders, returns, and shipments
  • relevant technical certifications, or equivalent hands-on experience
  • 2+ year of experience in operations, logistics, order management, help desk, customer service, or a similar execution- or support-oriented environment
  • comfortable learning and working across multiple business systems
  • reconciling information between them
  • exposure to creating or working tickets in Jira, ServiceNow, Salesforce Service Cloud, or a similar ticketing system
  • strong attention to detail
  • track record of processing work accurately under deadline pressure
  • ability to follow established procedures and runbooks
  • hands-on exposure to executing transactions in an ERP
  • familiarity with ticketing and business systems
  • experience processing RMAs or reverse logistics transactions
  • exposure to military, government, or defense/aerospace operations
  • serialized asset tracking
  • export-controlled shipments
  • basic proficiency with Excel/Sheets to self-serve quick data checks
  • strong verbal and written communication skills
  • detail-oriented with a customer-focused mindset
  • willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment