Mission Support Engineer, EW Systems & Field Impact

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA, seeks a Mission Support Engineer to keep deployed EW systems at peak performance and to translate field feedback to development teams.

You will own operational performance, investigate anomalies end-to-end, validate new software builds, and enhance monitoring and health telemetry across fleet, collaborating with engineering and product teams. Travel to field sites is possible but not required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of defense industry, USG, or DoD/DoW experience performing technical operations.
• Experience working with and/or deploying complex software solutions.
• Experience with distributed communication networks and system-of-systems architectures.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate disaggregated networking systems.
• A desire to perform high-stakes, critical, and time-sensitive functions with real-world impact.
• A bias for action, extreme ownership, and self-driving motivation to see projects through.
• Experience supporting incident-driven workflows.
• Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and weekends, as needed.
• Ability to obtain and maintain SECRET security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own the operational performance of deployed EW systems across multiple theaters, serving as the primary technical interface between field operations and engineering.
• Investigate and resolve system anomalies end-to-end - from initial detection through root cause isolation, corrective action, and post-incident documentation.
• Contribute to the validation and fielding of new EW software builds, including pre-deployment verification and operational acceptance testing.
• Leverage Linux diagnostics, log analysis, and command-line tooling to drive resolution and deploy cutting edge software solutions.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to continuously enhance fleet-wide monitoring, alerting, and health telemetry for EW assets.
• Aggregate and interpret field performance data to identify failure patterns, inform preventive maintenance strategies, and guide engineering investment decisions.
• Serve as a trusted point of contact for customers, managing technical issues with clear communication, defined timelines, and follow-through from identification to closure.
• Translate operational feedback and mission requirements into actionable input for product development, advocating for capability improvements grounded in real-world employment.
• Develop and maintain deep technical fluency across the EW product portfolio, enabling effective communication between operators, engineers, and program stakeholders.
• Orchestrate cross-functional responses to complex sustainment challenges, aligning business operations, engineering, and field support teams to optimize system availability.
• Provide structured mission insights and deployment lessons-learned to software and hardware engineering teams, shaping roadmap priorities and informing design decisions.
• Travel to field sites, if desired and opportunities arise - not required

Skills

Defense industry experience

Software deployments

Distributed networks

System-of-systems architectures

Security clearance

Incident response

Excellent communication

Non-standard hours

Education

BS in STEM

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

Jira

DataDog

Grafana

VictorOps

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA, seeks a Mission Support Engineer to keep deployed EW systems at peak performance and to translate field feedback to development teams.

You will own operational performance, investigate anomalies end-to-end, validate new software builds, and enhance monitoring and health telemetry across fleet, collaborating with engineering and product teams. Travel to field sites is possible but not required.