Senior Mission Ops Deployment Lead, Strategic Defense

Anduril Industries; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 167,000 - 222,000; Full time

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Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Operations Engineer to own the deployment lifecycle for our compute infrastructure, coordinating site surveys, installation, and acceptance testing at government sites nationwide.

You will act as the primary liaison between government stakeholders and Anduril engineering, translating operational needs into actionable requirements and ensuring timely delivery and system performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in site operations, field engineering, or technical program management in defense or national security environments.
• Hands-on experience deploying and sustaining compute hardware in operational or lab environments (servers, ruggedized platforms).
• Technical familiarity with defense hardware form factors (rack-mount servers, ruggedized edge devices, mobile computing).
• Understanding of how third‑party systems (sensors, effectors, C2) integrate into compute hardware, including power, cooling, and networking requirements.
• Proven ability to liaise between technical engineering teams and government customers, with strong stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working alongside software engineers and/or SRE teams on deployment, integration, or operational readiness activities.
• Strong organizational skills with experience tracking assets, configurations, or fleet‑level data across distributed sites.
• Ability to travel 25–50% to government sites for deployments, site surveys, and customer engagements.
• Must possess and maintain an active U.S. TS/SCI security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute site deployments of Anduril compute nodes (Menace-T, Menace-I, Voyager, etc.), coordinating across logistics, engineering, and government site teams
• Serve as the day‑to‑day technical point of contact for government customers, managing expectations, communicating status, and escalating issues
• Assess and coordinate the physical integration of third‑party sensors and effectors into Anduril hardware form factors, including power, cooling, network, and rack‑space requirements
• Develop and maintain a fleet management system to track deployed assets, configurations, software baselines, and system health across all program sites
• Partner with SRE teams to monitor deployed node health, coordinate software updates and support incident response
• Create and deliver technical reports, deployment readiness reviews, and status briefings for government and internal leadership
• Drive continuous improvement of deployment processes, documentation, and playbooks to enable repeatable, scalable site activations
• Support program management activities including schedule tracking, risk identification, and deliverable management
• Contribute to the development of training materials and conduct end‑user training at deployed sites

Skills

Site operations

Field engineering

Systems deployment

Technical program management

Liaison with government

Tools

Menace-T

Menace-I

Voyager

Lattice OS

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Operations Engineer to own the deployment lifecycle for our compute infrastructure, coordinating site surveys, installation, and acceptance testing at government sites nationwide.

You will act as the primary liaison between government stakeholders and Anduril engineering, translating operational needs into actionable requirements and ensuring timely delivery and system performance.