Maritime Mission Operations Lead

Anduril; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Equity grants

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Operations Engineer to act as the operational lead for maritime, undersea, and autonomous systems. You will briefing senior leaders, coordinating with engineers and program directors, and embedding with warfighters to ground the roadmap in real-world needs.

You will analyze missions, frame operational problems, and translate them into defensible requirements while traveling up to 50% to multiple sites and customer locations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in maritime, undersea, or autonomous systems mission areas.
• 5+ years maritime operational planning experience in the maritime domain at unit/command level.
• Experience with AUV capabilities or autonomous systems and water space coordination.
• Proven ability to brief and defend objectives to senior leaders.
• Ability to decompose complex problems into executable strategies.
• Strong understanding of maritime missions and threat-informed planning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; executive briefings.
• Ability to influence decisions across technical, operational, and business stakeholders.
• Portfolio-level view across programs and time horizons.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% and hold a U.S. security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Represent the operational perspective in cross-functional reviews and portfolio planning.
• Partner with systems analysts, engineers, operators, program directors, and business leaders to keep solutions aligned with warfighting needs.
• Convert field results into portfolio-level lessons to inform roadmaps.
• Understand enterprise mission analysis for maritime portfolios and communicate to customers across products.
• Develop concepts of operation and employment, keeping them current with priorities.
• Inform capability roadmaps, IRAD, and investment prioritization with operational cases.
• Translate threat environments and missions into requirements for product and engineering teams.
• Compare alternative approaches and assess trade-offs in utility, feasibility, cost, and survivability.

Skills

Maritime ops

Operational planning

AUV experience

Executive briefings

Stakeholder influence

Portfolio management

Communication

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Operations Engineer to act as the operational lead for maritime, undersea, and autonomous systems. You will briefing senior leaders, coordinating with engineers and program directors, and embedding with warfighters to ground the roadmap in real-world needs.

You will analyze missions, frame operational problems, and translate them into defensible requirements while traveling up to 50% to multiple sites and customer locations.