Electromagnetic Warfare Field Engineer

Anduril-1; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Support Engineer for Electromagnetic Warfare to keep deployed EW systems performing at peak reliability and to provide field insights to the development teams.

You will own operational performance, investigate anomalies, and work with engineering on software builds, diagnostics, and fleet monitoring, while communicating clearly with customers and program stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ defense industry, USG, or DoD/DoW experience performing technical operations.
• Experience working with and/or deploying complex software solutions.
• Experience with distributed communication networks and system-of-systems architectures.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate disaggregated networking systems.
• A desire to perform high-stakes, critical, and time-sensitive functions with real-world impact.
• A bias for action, extreme ownership, and self-driving motivation to see projects through.
• Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain SECRET security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own the operational performance of deployed EW systems across multiple theaters, serving as the primary technical interface between field operations and engineering.
• Investigate and resolve system anomalies end-to-end — from initial detection through root cause isolation, corrective action, and post-incident documentation.
• Contribute to the validation and fielding of new EW software builds, including pre-deployment verification and operational acceptance testing.
• Leverage Linux diagnostics, log analysis, and command-line tooling to drive resolution and deploy cutting edge software solutions.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to continuously enhance fleet-wide monitoring, alerting, and health telemetry for EW assets.
• Aggregate and interpret field performance data to identify failure patterns, inform preventive maintenance strategies, and guide engineering investment decisions.
• Serve as a trusted point of contact for customers, managing technical issues with clear communication, defined timelines, and follow-through from identification to closure.
• Translate operational feedback and mission requirements into actionable input for product development, advocating for capability improvements grounded in real-world employment.
• Develop and maintain deep technical fluency across the EW product portfolio, enabling effective communication between operators, engineers, and program stakeholders.
• Orchestrate cross-functional responses to complex sustainment challenges, aligning business operations, engineering, and field support teams to optimize system availability.
• Provide structured mission insights and deployment lessons-learned to software and hardware engineering teams, shaping roadmap priorities and informing design decisions.
• Travel to field sites, if desired and opportunities arise – not required

Skills

Defense industry experience

Distributed networks

High-stakes operations

Ownership mindset

Excellent communication

SECRET clearance eligibility

Education

BS in STEM (preferred)

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

DataDog

Grafana

VictorOps

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Support Engineer for Electromagnetic Warfare to keep deployed EW systems performing at peak reliability and to provide field insights to the development teams.

You will own operational performance, investigate anomalies, and work with engineering on software builds, diagnostics, and fleet monitoring, while communicating clearly with customers and program stakeholders.