Forward-Deployed Mission Strategist, Unmanned Maritime

Sitreps; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) match

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Sitreps in the United States seeks a Forward Deployed Mission Strategist for unmanned maritime systems. You will embed with the Navy's USV community in Norfolk, working on-site with operators at least three days a week, helping define workflows, and shaping software needs in a 0-to-1 environment.

The role blends mission understanding with engineering cooperation, turning operational challenges into concrete software requirements, and collaborating across product, engineering, and leadership.

Qualifications

• Must be in-person in Norfolk weekly.
• Experience or strong interest in unmanned or manned surface vessels, unmanned systems, or software for planning, running, or monitoring hardware operations.
• Experience solving difficult problems with technology in product/engineering or military fielding contexts.
• High ownership amid ambiguity with grit to push through iteration and friction.
• Experience working with autonomous or unmanned platforms.

Responsibilities

• Embed with operators on site with USV operators and mission planners in Norfolk to build intuition for unmanned surface operations.
• Prioritize problems learned first-hand to distill mission issues worth solving.
• Build workflows and refine them for reliability on real missions.
• Own release quality by tracking and fixing bugs on fielded government systems.
• Generate mission wins by translating deployments into Navy-partnered successes.
• Operate independently on site with support from product, engineering, and leadership.

Skills

Unmanned systems experience

On-site Norfolk

Problem solving

Autonomy under ambiguity

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Sitreps in the United States seeks a Forward Deployed Mission Strategist for unmanned maritime systems. You will embed with the Navy's USV community in Norfolk, working on-site with operators at least three days a week, helping define workflows, and shaping software needs in a 0-to-1 environment.

The role blends mission understanding with engineering cooperation, turning operational challenges into concrete software requirements, and collaborating across product, engineering, and leadership.