Product Operations Engineer

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA is seeking a Product Operations Engineer to own the Sentry fleet's observability, reliability, and continuous improvement. You will serve as the product operations SME across Air Defense and Counter Intrusion, guiding RCCA cycles from failure capture to corrective action.

You will develop uptime reporting, build self-service resources, and collaborate with product, engineering, deployment, and sustainment teams to ensure fleet health and rapid improvement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product operations, technical support, site reliability, or similar roles with deployed hardware/software
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, CS, or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience
• Technical depth in robotics, mechatronics, or complex electromechanical systems across hardware/software/networking
• Experience driving RCCA to closure on complex systems
• Experience leading iterative design across multiple engineering/operations teams
• Proficiency in building monitoring dashboards and alerts (Datadog, Grafana or similar)
• Experience validating software changes on distributed/fielded systems including rollout and rollback
• Scripting/automation skills (Python, Bash) and familiarity with Git/Jira
• Ability to author clear technical docs and runbooks for varied audiences
• Ability to coordinate across product, engineering, deployment, and sustainment functions
• Proven ability to work independently and deliver without close direction
• Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills
• Eligible for active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Build deep technical understanding of the Sentry system across hardware/software
• Design, deploy, and improve RCCA-driven cycles for fielded towers
• Turn field data into actionable product improvement signals
• Apply FRACAS methodologies to track and close failures
• Develop uptime reporting and fleet health metrics for stakeholders
• Build observability tooling with hardware/software teams
• Own and improve the Sentry knowledge base for field ops
• Expand self-service runbooks and troubleshooting guides
• Lead iterative design cycles across product operations, engineering, and deployment

Skills

RCCA design

Iterative design

Observability

Technical comms

Cross-team coordination

Python/Bash scripting

Documentation

Root cause analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering / CS or equivalent

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

Git

Jira

Python

Bash

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky.
The Counter-Intrusion business line works on products that enable operators to protect their people and assets from threats on land and sea. We are deployed in every major global operating theater and support a diversity of mission sets across both U.S. Government and allied partners.
Sentry is the primary product focus of this role and it is fielded across both business lines. The Sentry platform integrates robotics, autonomy, hardware, and software to deliver mission-critical capabilities in defense and security, with a rapidly growing fleet and new variants in development. Product Operations is the team that keeps that fleet healthy once it leaves the factory, working across product, engineering, deployment operations, logistics, and sustainment to turn what happens in the field into actionable improvements.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Product Operations Engineer supporting Air Defense and Counter Intrusion, you will be the architect behind how we observe, maintain, and evolve the deployed Sentry fleet. Where others respond to incidents, you build the systems, queries, and processes that enable prevention. You will develop a deep product understanding, serving as a function SME for all things Sentry. You will work with product engineering partners to design, deploy, and improve a system that supports RCCA cycle execution and delivers actionable product improvement signal, directly impacting the design of next generation hardware and software. You will develop and deploy uptime reporting and observability tooling to measure and facilitate capability availability for customers. You will manage and democratize the Sentry knowledge base for field operations functions and support the proliferation of self service resources.
You should bring strong technical depth in robotics engineering, experience leading iterative design across multiple teams, a systems approach to problem solving, and a familiarity with reliability and quality methodologies such as FRACAS. If you are passionate about ground-breaking technology, contributing to the national security mission, and engineering operational excellence from the ground up, Anduril is interested in speaking with you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Product Subject Matter Expertise: Build and hold deep technical understanding of the Sentry system, hardware and software, and serve as the product operations SME for Sentry across both business lines, helping technical and non-technical stakeholders understand each other.
RCCA Cycle Design and Execution: Partner with product engineering to design, deploy, and continuously improve the system that drives root cause corrective action (RCCA) cycles on fielded Sentry towers, from failure capture through corrective action deployment.
Product Improvement Signal: Turn fleet failure data, field feedback, and reliability trends into actionable product improvement signal for engineering, directly informing the design of next generation Sentry hardware and software.
Reliability and Quality Methodology: Apply and mature failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action (FRACAS) practice for Sentry, establishing how failures are classified, tracked, and closed so reliability improvement is measurable rather than anecdotal.
Uptime Reporting and Capability Availability: Develop and deploy uptime reporting that measures and facilitates capability availability for customers, translating raw telemetry into fleet health metrics that program, product, and leadership stakeholders act on.
Observability Tooling: Proactively build and improve the observability tooling behind that reporting in partnership with hardware and software engineering, so coverage keeps pace with new Sentry variants and new site deployments.
Sentry Knowledge Base: Own, democratize, and continuously improve the Sentry knowledge base for field operations functions, so operational knowledge is codified, accurate, and usable by any level of on call support.
Self Service Enablement: Expand the self service resources, runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides that field and deployment teams rely on, so more is resolved at the point of need and the escalations that do arrive are better characterized.
Iterative Design Across Teams: Lead iterative design cycles spanning product operations, engineering, and deployment functions, building agreement on what to change next and carrying it through to implementation.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience in product operations, technical support, site reliability, or a comparable technical operations role supporting deployed hardware and software systems, with demonstrated progression in scope and ownership
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or another relevant technical field, or equivalent hands-on technical experience (military, industrial, or field support)
• Technical depth in robotics, mechatronics, or complex electromechanical systems, including the ability to reason across hardware, software, and networking boundaries
• Demonstrated experience driving root cause corrective action (RCCA) to closure on complex systems, including how failures are captured, classified, and verified as resolved
• Experience leading iterative design or improvement cycles across multiple engineering and operations teams, carrying a change from problem statement through implementation
• Proficiency developing monitoring queries, dashboards, and alerting configurations using observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, or similar tooling
• Experience validating and verifying software changes on distributed or fielded systems, including rollout, verification, and rollback considerations
• Scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Bash) with a track record of building tooling that improves operational efficiency, plus fluency with development and issue tracking tooling such as Git and Jira
• Demonstrated ability to author clear, thorough technical documentation including runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to coordinate technical and non-technical efforts across product, engineering, deployment, and sustainment functions, including across more than one program or customer at a time
• Proven ability to work independently, identify what needs to be built, and deliver it without close direction
• Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior military or government agency exposure or experience
• Familiarity with reliability and quality methodologies such as FRACAS, FMEA, or equivalent structured failure analysis practice
• Experience with Linux system administration and command-line troubleshooting of electromechanical or networked systems
• Experience supporting autonomous sensor systems, counter-UAS systems, and/or complex robotics systems
• Experience building or owning a technical knowledge base, documentation system, or self service support resources
• Exposure to Anduril's Lattice OS or similar command-and-control software platforms
• Experience operating in limited risk tolerance production environments with on-call responsibilities
• Willingness to work non-standard hours and weekends when operational needs require

US Salary Range

$101,000 - $135,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits .