Field Electrical Technician — Deploy & Sustain Defense

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Costa Mesa (CA); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Field Electrical Technician (Technical Operations Engineer) for our Costa Mesa location. You will deploy and support Anduril products worldwide, taking ownership of technical solutions from early lifecycle through refinement with engineering teams.

You must teach and learn, coaching teammates on systems while mastering new platforms. Role emphasizes customer focus, field troubleshooting, and collaboration with account managers on deployment success.

Qualifications

• 3+ years solving problems at hardware/software/networking interfaces.
• Ability to climb towers to install, maintain, and repair sensor equipment and components.
• Strong mechanical aptitude to troubleshoot critical site infrastructure including generators and solar systems.
• Experience maintaining tower structure elements for safety and integrity.
• Experience operating aerial lifts and forklifts.
• Willingness to travel to remote regions up to two months at a time (50%+ of year).
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret/Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Support military defense projects by executing technical operations, field maintenance and customer training.
• Diagnose and resolve hardware, software, and networking issues in unstructured environments.
• Communicate field issue status to internal and customer teams and guide product refinements to engineering.
• Develop and implement operational and logistical plans for events and deployments.
• Ensure high availability and performance of defense systems in the field.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation and field support plans.

Skills

Tower climbing

Field maintenance

Hardware troubleshooting

Networking basics

Linux basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering

Tools

Linux CLI

IP networking basics

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Field Electrical Technician (Technical Operations Engineer) for our Costa Mesa location. You will deploy and support Anduril products worldwide, taking ownership of technical solutions from early lifecycle through refinement with engineering teams.

You must teach and learn, coaching teammates on systems while mastering new platforms. Role emphasizes customer focus, field troubleshooting, and collaboration with account managers on deployment success.