Deployment and Training Lead, Air Defense

Anduril; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities with autonomous systems and AI.

As a Deployment Lead on the Air Defense team, you will own the full deployment lifecycle from planning and installation through training, sustainment, and continuous improvement. You will manage deployments of Anduril's Air Defense products, collaborate with Program Manager and Chief Engineer, and deliver world‑class training programs while fostering

Qualifications

• Experience delivering and sustaining deployments from planning to training and sustainment.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams across hardware, logistics, and engineering.
• Strong communication and operational readiness focus.
• Customer-facing representation and feedback loop.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute deployment events, including site installations, testing, demonstrations, and training.
• Develop and deliver training curricula and ensure end users are proficient and confident in employing the full Family of Systems.

Skills

Deployment planning

Training delivery

Cross-functional teamwork

Customer engagement

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting‑edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

About the Team

Anduril's Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, we provide mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of UAS threats. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains our Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.

About the Job

As a Deployment Lead on the Air Defense team, you are responsible for delivering, training, and sustaining a capability that meets our customers' mission requirements and exceeds their expectations. You own the full lifecycle of a deployment - from planning and installation through training, sustainment, and continuous improvement. You fulfill this responsibility through rigorous operational execution, detail orientation, proactive communication, deep mission understanding, and hard‑won product expertise.

You feel ownership over the health and performance of all assets and technologies deployed to your customers and users, and ensure that the system delivers when they need it most. You are equally invested in ensuring that end users are trained, confident, and proficient in employing the capability. You develop and deliver world‑class training programs, identify knowledge gaps, and build solutions that drive user proficiency and operational readiness.

You represent Anduril to our customers, building their confidence and trust through your professionalism and commitment to excellence. You also represent our customers back to Anduril, communicating user feedback and lessons learned to continuously improve our product and our team in response to evolving mission needs. Above all, you set the standard for what good looks like for your deployment, and you rally your Anduril teammates to meet that standard every single day.

In this role, you will manage deployments of Anduril's Air Defense products while ensuring mission readiness to support national security infrastructure. Collaborating closely with the Program Manager and Program Chief Engineer, you will play a crucial role in developing long‑term deployment, training, and sustainment operations aligned with customer priorities. As a key team member, you will engage across multiple business lines and facilitate customer interactions, making flexibility, humility, and a collaborative mindset essential qualities for success.

What You'll Do

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 detail‑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.

Training development and delivery: You own the training mission for your deployments. You develop and deliver training curricula across a variety of formats - from computer‑based simulations and knowledge portals to hands‑on individual and collective training events. You create and maintain training materials that keep pace with evolving product capabilities. You identify knowledge gaps and training opportunities, plan and resource realistic training events, and ensure end users are proficient and confident in employing the full Family of Systems. You are passionate…