Mission Operations Engineer

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.