Maritime Ops Lead for Autonomous Systems

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

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Operations Lead to drive enterprise-level maritime analysis and capability prioritization at our Costa Mesa, CA headquarters. The role requires coordinating with engineers, program directors, and executives while briefing senior leaders and external customers.

Expect travel up to 50% and direct engagement with warfighters to ground mission context in product roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Maritime operational planning experience at unit/fleet level.
• Experience briefing senior military and civilian leaders including COs.
• Ability to decompose ambiguous operational problems into executable strategies.
• Strong understanding of maritime missions, threat-informed planning, and warfighting outcomes.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Understand enterprise-level mission analysis for the maritime portfolio and communicate to customers.
• Develop concepts of operation, employment, mission threads, and use cases for current/future systems.
• Inform capability roadmaps, investment prioritization, and product-market fit with operational cases.
• Translate threat environments and customer missions into capability priorities for teams.
• Compare alternative approaches and assess trade-offs in utility, feasibility, cost, and survivability.
• Convert demonstrations and field results into portfolio-level lessons for roadmaps.
• Partner with analysts, engineers, and program leaders to ensure solutions meet warfighting needs.
• Represent operational perspective in reviews and portfolio planning, bridging customer language and engineering implications.

Skills

Maritime planning

AUV capabilities

Executive briefings

Operational problem solving

Threat-informed planning

Excellent communication

Influence without authority

Portfolio management

Travel readiness

Active security clearance

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Operations Lead to drive enterprise-level maritime analysis and capability prioritization at our Costa Mesa, CA headquarters. The role requires coordinating with engineers, program directors, and executives while briefing senior leaders and external customers.

Expect travel up to 50% and direct engagement with warfighters to ground mission context in product roadmaps.