Maritime Sustainment & Lifecycle Cost Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Product Support Engineer for the Maritime Division in the United States. You will drive sustainment strategies, maintain lifecycle cost models, and own provisioning, reliability data, and cost projections to support a fleet of maritime autonomous vehicles.

You will lead cross-functional teams, ensure up-to-date maintenance procedures, and collaborate with RAM and design engineering to optimize supportability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Logistics, Economics, Finance, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in product support, sustainment engineering, or systems engineering roles within a high-rigor environment (e.g., defense, aerospace, advanced robotics, complex industrial systems)
• Demonstrated detailed and extensive technical expertise in applying mechanical or systems engineering principles to complex hardware systems
• Experience building or maintaining a life cycle cost or operating and support (O&S) cost model and presenting its results to a program or customer audience.
• Direct experience with sustainment methodologies such as Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA), Level of Repair Analysis (LORA), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), or developing Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) plans.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain comprehensive, ground-up sustainment plans for the specific product(s) you support
• Partner with customers, operations teams, and cross-functional engineering teams to define, implement, and continuously improve effective maintenance and repair strategies
• Ensure the availability of up-to-date maintenance procedures, specialized tools, and accurate technical manuals to support field sustainment operations
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all sustainment-related matters within your product team, proactively identifying and resolving issues
• Collaborate with design and manufacturing engineering teams during new product development phases to integrate best sustainment practices and design-for-supportability concepts early in the process
• Create and maintain a Service Bill of Materials (SBOM) and other critical sustainment artifacts (e.g., provisioning lists, support equipment lists), ensuring they establish a central, up-to-date repository for all sustainment data
• Supply the support terms of the operational availability basis, meaning logistics delay and preventive maintenance time, alongside the reliability lead who owns the reliability allocations.
• Build and maintain the life cycle cost estimate and the operating and support cost model, with sensitivity analysis and affordability reporting, and publish the estimate at program gates.
• Build and own the life cycle cost model for the vehicle fleet and its support system.
• Perform product support analysis covering provisioning, manning, facilities, and support equipment.
• Produce operating and support (O&S) cost estimates and keep them current as the design matures.
• Run cost trade studies on sustainment approaches and feed results into design decisions.
• Develop spares and provisioning plans in partnership with RAM and Maintenance.
• Define the product support strategy and supporting elements of the logistics architecture.
• Produce cost and supportability analysis for customer deliverables and program reviews.
• Establish the data pipeline that converts reliability and maintenance data into cost projections.

Skills

Sustainment engineering

Systems engineering

Cost modeling

Technical communication

DoD experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

CAD software

PLM tools

Siemens NX

Teamcenter

JIRA

Oracle ERP

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Product Support Engineer for the Maritime Division in the United States. You will drive sustainment strategies, maintain lifecycle cost models, and own provisioning, reliability data, and cost projections to support a fleet of maritime autonomous vehicles.

You will lead cross-functional teams, ensure up-to-date maintenance procedures, and collaborate with RAM and design engineering to optimize supportability.