Warfighting Capability Analyst, Maritime

Anduril Industries; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Warfighting Capability Analyst to bridge customers, engineers, and leaders, turning mission problems into structured capability gaps and employment concepts. You will support decisions that deliver operational advantage across subsurface, surface, land, and air domains.

The role requires translating complex military concepts into clear analyses and briefings for executives and stakeholders, with a strong emphasis on threat-informed planning and a deep

Qualifications

• Experience in operational analysis, military planning, capability development, defense strategy, mission engineering, or related fields.
• Ability to decompose ambiguous operational problems into structured analytic questions and actionable recommendations.
• Strong understanding of military missions, operational concepts, threat-informed planning, and the relation between technology and warfighting outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including executive-level briefings and analytic narratives.
• Ability to collaborate across technical, operational, and business stakeholders in fast-paced environments.
• Must maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Conduct mission analysis to identify operational problems, capability gaps, and opportunities for differentiated product or system employment.
• Develop concepts of operation, concepts of employment, and operational vignettes for current and future systems.
• Analyze threat environments, customer missions, force structure, and campaign context to inform capability development.
• Define measures of effectiveness and performance for proposed capabilities.
• Translate customer needs and mission problems into capability priorities and defensible requirements.
• Create briefings, white papers, narratives, and analytic products for executives, customers, and stakeholders.
• Support capture, strategy, and business development by showing how capabilities solve operational problems.
• Compare alternative approaches and assess trade-offs in utility, feasibility, cost, and survivability.
• Work with analysts, engineers, operators, and leaders to anchor solutions to warfighting needs.
• Contribute to internal capability roadmaps, investment priorities, and campaign analyses.

Skills

Operational analysis

Military planning

Capability development

Defense strategy

Communication skills

Executive briefing

Stakeholder collaboration

Analytic narratives

Security clearance

Job description

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril 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 JOB

At Anduril, we are developing unmanned systems for subsurface, surface, land, and air domains that will leverage unsupervised autonomy for the delivery of multi-mission capability to our customers. These projects require Warfighting Capability Analysts who can connect operational problems, threat-informed scenarios, customer needs, and product employment concepts to guide what we build and why it matters. We are looking for our next Warfighting Capability Analyst to join our rapidly growing team. This position is available in either Costa Mesa, CA or Quincy, MA.

The Warfighting Capability Analyst supports the development, evaluation, and communication of mission-relevant defense capabilities. This role focuses on understanding what capability the warfighter requires, why it matters, how it would be employed, and how the company should prioritize solutions that deliver operational advantage. The analyst serves as a bridge between customers, business lines, engineering teams, product leaders, and operational stakeholders, translating ambiguous mission problems into structured capability gaps, concepts of employment, measures of effectiveness, operational vignettes, and decision-quality analysis that informs product strategy, growth, and program execution.

This role is ideal for individuals who can reason across military operations, emerging technology, customer mission sets, and defense market dynamics, and who can communicate complex operational ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Conduct mission analysis to identify operational problems, capability gaps, and opportunities for differentiated product or system employment
• Develop and refine concepts of operation, concepts of employment, operational vignettes, mission threads, and use cases for current and future systems
• Analyze threat environments, customer missions, force structure, operational constraints, and campaign-level context to inform capability development
• Define measures of effectiveness, measures of performance, and operational value propositions for proposed capabilities
• Support product, growth, and engineering teams by translating customer needs and mission problems into capability priorities and defensible requirements
• Build clear, decision-oriented briefings, white papers, narratives, and analytic products for internal executives, customers, and external stakeholders
• Support capture, strategy, and business development efforts by articulating how company capabilities solve specific operational problems
• Compare alternative capability approaches and assess trade-offs in mission utility, feasibility, scalability, cost, survivability, and operational relevance
• Partner with systems analysts, engineers, operators, and business-line leaders to ensure technical solutions remain anchored to real warfighting needs
• Contribute to internal capability roadmaps, investment priorities, campaign analyses, and product-market fit assessments in defense contexts

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in operational analysis, military planning, capability development, defense strategy, mission engineering, military operations, intelligence analysis, or a related field
• Ability to decompose ambiguous operational problems into structured analytic questions and actionable recommendations
• Strong understanding of military missions, operational concepts, threat-informed planning, and the relationship between technology and warfighting outcomes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce executive-level briefings and clear analytic narratives
• Ability to work across technical, operational, and business stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
• Strong judgment, intellectual curiosity, and comfort operating with incomplete information
• Ability to translate between customer language, operational need, product strategy, and engineering implications
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior military, DoD, defense industry, intelligence community, operational test, campaign analysis, or warfighting development experience
• Experience supporting maritime, undersea, autonomous systems, air, surface, C2, ISR, fires, logistics, or other operational mission areas
• Familiarity with CONOPS development, campaign analysis, wargaming, modeling and simulation, operational test, requirements development, or capability portfolio management
• Experience working directly with government customers, senior military leaders, product teams, or engineering organizations
• Experience with both qualitative and quantitative analysis
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

US Salary Range

$166,000—$220,000 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 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:

Benefits

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.

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