# Mission Operations Engineer

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

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## Description

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 Engineer to own the Barracuda family of affordable, autonomous cruise missiles.

**Responsibilities**

- Own the Barracuda mission. Become intimately familiar with the Barracuda product line, its employment and launch systems, mission planning workflows, and the customer operations and tactics it supports.

- Support test, demos, and events. Partner with Test & Evaluation to plan and execute flight tests, live-fire demonstrations, capability exercises, and customer events.

- Train and enable operators. Build and deliver the training that lets end users plan, load, and employ Barracuda without us in the room.

- Shape the product. Translate customer mission problems into concrete engineering feedback and requirements.

- Grow into sustainment. Partner with Logistics and Integrated Product Support to stand up the support model behind a fielded munition.

- Grow the account. Build trust-based relationships from the operator to the executive level, articulate where Barracuda fits in the customer’s problem set, and support proposals and new opportunities that expand the program.

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or a related technical field.

- 4+ years of operational, test, or program experience in a military and/or defense industry environment.

- Demonstrated ability to learn a complex weapon system end to end.

- Experience planning and executing field activity.

- Strong technical aptitude and intellectual curiosity.

- Clear, direct written and verbal communication.

- Bias toward action and an ownership mentality.

- Ability to remain effective in austere, ambiguous, and rapidly changing environments.

- Able to travel up to 50% domestically and internationally.

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret clearance.

- Must be a U.S. Person.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Operational or test experience with cruise missiles, munitions, or precision strike weapons.

- Military background in a strike, fires, weapons, aircrew, EOD/ammunition, or armament role.

- Experience with autonomous or unmanned air systems.

- Prior work supporting flight test campaigns.

- Familiarity with munitions logistics.

- Exposure to DoD acquisition and sustainment.

- Experience delivering operator training.

- Foreign Military Sales or allied partner engagement experience.

## Skills

### Required
- engineering
- science
- technical field
- operational experience
- test experience
- program experience
- complex weapon system
- field activity
- technical aptitude
- communication
- ownership mentality
- austere environments
- U.S. Secret clearance

### Nice to have
- cruise missiles
- munitions
- precision strike weapons
- autonomous systems
- unmanned air systems
- flight test campaigns
- munitions logistics
- DoD acquisition
- operator training
- Foreign Military Sales

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