UAV Operator, Maneuver Dominance

The role

You will serve as a bridge between product engineering and deployed operations for autonomy enabled UAVs. You will stand up forward-deployed operations in austere environments and support the development of vehicle autonomy through test events and customer demonstrations.

What you will do

• Serve as a bridge between product engineering and deployed operations for autonomy enabled UAVs.
• Ensure successful combat employment of Anduril products.
• Shape the long-term sustainment of products.
• Stand up forward-deployed operations in austere environments.
• Support the development of vehicle autonomy by supporting test events and customer demonstrations.
• Leverage operations and technical expertise to shape and deploy solutions.
• Practice extreme ownership of all dependencies to ensure mission success.

Required qualifications

• Extensive hands-on (field operations, manufacturing, or test) technical experience
• Prior military or defense contractor experience as a manned or unmanned pilot/operator, Network technician, or Crew Chief/maintainer (Avionics, GNC, Electrical)
• Demonstrated understanding of flight operations, aircraft systems, and sensors
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems in unstructured situations at the interface of hardware, software, and operations
• Experience working with cross-functional engineering teams and external customers
• Experience performing data-driven root cause analysis on complex systems using logs
• Intermediate to advanced understanding and experience for some or all of the following: Computers (terminal environment, server management, programming languages like Python, Rust, MATLAB)
• Intermediate to advanced understanding and experience for IP Networking (Network Administration or Design, strong troubleshooting)
• Intermediate to advanced understanding and experience for Radios (MANET, SATCOM, Backhual systems)
• Demonstrated ability to train peers or customers on the operation of a product
• Must have prior, operationally relevant, deployment experience
• Willingness to travel up to 80% including occasional deployments for up to two months at a time

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering or related discipline
• Hands-on professional experience working with developmental weapon or missile systems on manned and/or unmanned aircraft
• Experience with Autonomy; Behavior Trees, CV models, multi-vehicle operation
• Experience with Ground-based air defense systems, either sensors or effectors
• Experience with Operations and maintenance of air breathing propulsion systems
• Experience with Aircraft or launch vehicle flight line operations
• Experience with Munitions storage and handling controls

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S.Top Secret security clearance
• Able to meet health and medical requirements in advance of deployments
• Consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.