Technical Operations Engineer, Maneuver Dominance

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

This role supports the development and deployment of autonomy-enabled UAVs for a defense technology company. The engineer will act as a bridge between product engineering and deployed operations, ensuring mission success in austere environments. Responsibilities include shaping and deploying solutions, supporting test events and customer demonstrations, and performing data-driven root cause analysis on complex systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will serve as a bridge between product engineering and deployed operations for autonomy enabled UAVs.
  2. You will practice extreme ownership of all dependencies to ensure that Anduril’s growing suite of capabilities achieve total mission success in austere, remote environments.
  3. You will be embedded within an air vehicle development program where you will leverage your operations and technical expertise to shape and deploy a solution of maximum effectiveness and reliability.
  4. Your scope will include standing up forward-deployed operations in austere environments, ensuring the successful combat employment of Anduril products, and shaping the long-term sustainment of these products.
  5. In addition, you will be a core participant in supporting the development of vehicle autonomy by supporting test events and customer demonstrations closer to home.

Skills

Required

  • Extensive hands-on (field operations, manufacturing, or test) technical experience
  • Prior military or defense contractor experience as a manned or unmanned pilot/operator, Network technician, or Crew Chief/maintainer (Avionics, GNC, Electrical)
  • Demonstrated understanding of flight operations, aircraft systems, and sensors
  • Demonstrated ability to solve problems in unstructured situations at the interface of hardware, software, and operations in pursuit of mission success
  • Experience working with cross-functional engineering teams and external customers
  • Experience performing data-driven root cause analysis on complex systems using logs as a source of truth
  • Intermediate to advanced understanding and experience for some or all of the following: Computers; comfortable in a terminal environment, server management, developing or interacting with programming languages (e.g. Python, Rust, MATLAB)
  • IP Networking; Network Administration or Design, strong troubleshooting experience required
  • Radios; MANET, SATCOM, Backhual systems
  • Demonstrated ability to train peers or customers on the operation of a product
  • Prior, operationally relevant, deployment experience
  • Willingness to travel up to 80% including occasional deployments for up to two months at a time
  • Able to work extended hours as required
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S.Top Secret security clearance
  • Able to meet health and medical requirements in advance of deployments

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering or related discipline
  • Hands-on professional experience working with developmental weapon or missile systems on manned and/or unmanned aircraft
  • Autonomy; Behavior Trees, CV models, multi-vehicle operation
  • Ground-based air defense systems, either sensors or effectors
  • Operations and maintenance of air breathing propulsion systems
  • Aircraft or launch vehicle flight line operations
  • Munitions storage and handling controls

What the JD emphasized

  • extensive hands-on (field operations, manufacturing, or test) technical experience
  • prior military or defense contractor experience
  • demonstrated understanding of flight operations, aircraft systems, and sensors
  • demonstrated ability to solve problems in unstructured situations
  • experience performing data-driven root cause analysis on complex systems using logs as a source of truth
  • must have prior, operationally relevant, deployment experience
  • willingness to travel up to 80% including occasional deployments for up to two months at a time
  • eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S.Top Secret security clearance

Other signals

  • AI-powered operating system
  • autonomy
  • computer vision
  • sensor fusion
  • deployed operations
  • test events
  • customer demonstrations