Maritime Mission Operations Architect

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries, headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA, seeks a Mission Operations Engineer to lead operational analysis for unmanned and autonomous systems. You will brief senior leaders, embed with warfighters, and translate field results into actionable roadmaps while coordinating with product, engineering, and program teams.

You will travel up to 50% across facilities and sites to ensure plans stay grounded in warfighting realities and customer needs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in maritime, undersea, or autonomous systems mission areas.
• 5+ years maritime operational planning at unit/strike group level.
• Experience with AUV capabilities or autonomous systems in water space.
• Ability to brief and defend operational objectives before senior leaders.
• Decompose ambiguous operational problems into structured executable strategies.
• Strong understanding of maritime missions and threat-informed planning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for executive briefings.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% and maintain active U.S. Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Represent the operational perspective in cross-functional reviews, gate decisions, and portfolio planning cycles.
• Partner with systems analysts, engineers, operators, program directors, and business-line leaders to ensure solutions stay aligned to warfighting needs.
• Convert results from at-sea demonstrations, field tests, and program execution into portfolio-level lessons that influence the roadmap.
• Understand enterprise mission analysis for the maritime portfolio and communicate capabilities and priorities to the customer.
• Develop and refine concepts of operation, employment, and use cases for current and future systems.
• Inform capability roadmaps, IRAD and investment prioritization with operational arguments.
• Analyze threat environments and translate context into capability priorities for product teams.
• Compare alternative approaches and assess trade-offs in mission utility, feasibility, and cost.

Skills

Maritime operations

Operational planning

Mission analysis

Executive briefings

Stakeholder influence

Travel readiness

Security clearance

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Anduril Industries, headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA, seeks a Mission Operations Engineer to lead operational analysis for unmanned and autonomous systems. You will brief senior leaders, embed with warfighters, and translate field results into actionable roadmaps while coordinating with product, engineering, and program teams.

You will travel up to 50% across facilities and sites to ensure plans stay grounded in warfighting realities and customer needs.