West Coast CUAS Deployment Lead

Anduril Industries; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA, seeks a Mission Operations Deployment Lead to deliver and sustain CUAS capabilities that meet customer mission requirements. You will oversee deployment from site survey to testing, training, and sustainment, ensuring performance and customer trust.

You will develop deep mission understanding, communicate effectively with customers and engineers, and champion continuous product improvement to address evolving needs.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree or 4+ years experience in a technical field.
• Deep interest in national security issues and defense technologies, with a commitment to lifelong learning.
• Proven customer-facing program management and/or systems engineering experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domain.
• Proven experience leading a team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments.
• Can travel up to 50% of the year.
• Applicant must have experience demonstrating an ability to lead tech enabled teams while building a culture of influence through relationships.
• The applicant brings innovative solutions for strategic impact to issues challenging the organization and customer alike.
• Applicant is highly effective with coordinating cross-functional teams and subject matter experts of engineers, operations, logistics, etc., to rally in the accomplishment of a unified goal.
• The ideal candidate innovates and drives improvements across disciplines with a proven ability to design, develop, implement, and evaluate processes relating to project management and customer relationship building.
• Applicant is adept at listening, consolidating, interpreting, and then communicating subjective material into the objective for the benefit of the team.
• Is a creative problem solver that is energetic and relentlessly curious.
• We would love to hear from you if you have integrity and character beyond reproach, service mindset, results-oriented, curiosity, humility, and a track record of tackling hard things.

Responsibilities

• Project planning and execution: plan and execute complex hardware movements, site installations.
• Site sustainment operations: Tier 1 troubleshooting and user engagements, issue resolution and escalation, reporting, working with data.
• Communicate plans and timelines to the customer and to internal counterparts.
• Drive cross-functional/integrated program team: lead an integrated team to deliver capability, create focus, drive execution.
• Manage customer and stakeholder expectation and relationships.
• Support large DoW Program of requirements and submit accurate and timely information on deadline.

Skills

Program management

Customer facing

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Advanced degree

Job description

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA, seeks a Mission Operations Deployment Lead to deliver and sustain CUAS capabilities that meet customer mission requirements. You will oversee deployment from site survey to testing, training, and sustainment, ensuring performance and customer trust.

You will develop deep mission understanding, communicate effectively with customers and engineers, and champion continuous product improvement to address evolving needs.