# Senior Cinematographer

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $112,000-$149,000 USD
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril's Design Team is seeking a Cinematographer to join our team in Costa Mesa, CA. As a Senior Cinematographer, you will be supporting the Photo & Video team to capture Anduril's mission, products, and capabilities across domains.

The ideal candidate for this role will have experience capturing both short and long form content as a solo producer and supporting a film crew, with excellent instincts for lighting, color, and composition.

Responsibilities:

- Create videos for multiple mediums across commercial product cinematography, narrative, and documentary-style capture, in both studio and outdoor settings

- Support the Cinematography Manager in developing and preparing capture plans, including mood boards, storyboards, lighting plans, equipment lists, and shot lists

- Operate cinema cameras, cinema drones, and stabilization systems in small crews and occasionally as a solo-shooter

- Ideate, pitch, and execute on novel approaches to capturing products that meet and exceed Anduril's creative standards

- Partner with Photo & Video Producers throughout the pre-production, location scouting, equipment sourcing, and post workflows

- Maintain and manage camera gear and related equipment before and after shoots

- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including Communications, Marketing, and Business Lines to define product features and ensure alignment across key stakeholders to meet project objectives

- Collaborate with post-production to maintain edit workflows and supervise post-production through delivery

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Film Production, or equivalent experience in the field

- Minimum 5+ years working as a Cinematographer, with an emphasis in leading commercial, documentary, or narrative shoots

- Ability to light complex scenes with large products, both indoors and outdoors

- Experience using various camera systems, including Arri, Red, and Sony

- Ability to edit and color grade in Adobe Premiere

- A team player who is highly collaborative, with the ability to handle multiple projects, and communicate effectively with stakeholders

- Must be able to carry and lift loads up to 50lbs

- Ability to travel as required by the job

- Must work on-site at HQ in Costa Mesa, CA

- Must be a U.S. person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information and facilities

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience mic'ing up talent and recording live sound

- Experience in Adobe After Effects

- Experience with color grading in DaVinci Resolve

- FAA Part 107 Certificate for Commercial Drone Operators

- Able to obtain a Third-Class Airman Medical Certificate

- Able to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret Clearance / active U.S. Secret or Top-Secret security clearance

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) to support health, recovery, and overall well-being.

## Skills

### Required
- Cinematography
- Film Production
- Lighting
- Color Grading
- Adobe Premiere
- Camera Operation
- Team Collaboration

### Nice to have
- Adobe After Effects
- DaVinci Resolve
- FAA Part 107 Certificate
- U.S. Secret Clearance

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