Mission Operations Lead, Maritime

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

We are looking for a Mission Operations Lead to work at the enterprise level, based at our Costa Mesa, California headquarters.

The successful candidate will have built and executed plans in the maritime domain, have stood watch, and have been to sea, preferably using uncrewed systems.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the enterprise-level mission analysis for the maritime portfolio
• Develop and refine concepts of operation, concepts of employment, operational vignettes, mission threads, and use cases for current and future systems
• Inform capability roadmaps, IRAD and investment prioritization, and product-market fit assessments
• Analyze threat environments, customer missions, force structure, operational constraints, and campaign-level context
• Compare alternative capability approaches and assess trade-offs
• Convert results from at-sea demonstrations, field test events, and program execution into portfolio-level lessons
• Partner with systems analysts, engineers, operators, program directors, and business-line leaders
• Represent the operational perspective in cross-functional reviews, gate decisions, and portfolio planning cycles

Requirements:

• Maritime operational planning experience
• Experience tactically employing AUV capabilities or equivalent autonomous system experience
• Demonstrated ability to brief and defend operational objectives
• Ability to decompose ambiguous operational problems into structured executable strategies
• Strong understanding of maritime missions, operational concepts, threat-informed planning, and the relationship between technology and warfighting outcomes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to influence decisions across technical, operational, and business stakeholders
• Ability to hold a portfolio-level view
• Strong judgment, intellectual curiosity, and comfort operating with incomplete information
• Ability to translate between customer language, operational need, product strategy, and engineering implications
• Willingness to travel up to 50%
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience supporting maritime, undersea, or autonomous systems mission areas
• Watch floor experience
• Significant at-sea operational experience
• Prior military, DoD, defense industry, intelligence community, operational test, or tactical level development experience
• Familiarity with CONOPS development, campaign analysis, wargaming, modeling and simulation, operational test, or requirements development
• Experience working directly with government customers, senior military leaders, product teams, or engineering organizations
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance