Mission Operations Engineer

The role

You will own the Barracuda mission by becoming an expert on its employment, launch systems, and mission planning. You will execute tests, demonstrations, and customer events in the field. You will also train operators and provide engineering feedback to shape the product.

What you will do

• Own the Barracuda mission and become an expert on the product line and employment systems.
• Partner with Test & Evaluation to plan and execute flight tests, live-fire demonstrations, and customer events.
• Manage operational side of range activities including site coordination, hardware readiness, and operator training.
• Build and deliver training for end users to plan, load, and employ Barracuda.
• Translate customer mission problems into engineering feedback and requirements.
• Represent the operator at design and program reviews.
• Partner with Logistics and Integrated Product Support to stand up the support model for fielded munitions.
• Own the operational side of delivering against O&S contracts.
• Build trust-based relationships from the operator to the executive level.
• Support proposals and new opportunities to expand the program.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or a related technical field (equivalent military or operational experience may be substituted in lieu of education).
• 4+ years of operational, test, or program experience in a military and/or defense industry environment.
• Ability to learn a complex weapon system end to end and explain it to operators and engineers.
• Experience planning and executing field activity: tests, exercises, demonstrations, deployments, or live-fire events.
• 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, with the ability to obtain Top Secret access.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.

Nice to have

• 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, or service as a weapons and tactics instructor
• Experience with autonomous or unmanned air systems and their launch, control, and mission planning systems
• Prior work supporting flight test campaigns, range operations, or joint capability demonstrations
• Familiarity with munitions logistics
• Exposure to DoD acquisition and sustainment
• Experience delivering operator training or authoring TTPs, tactics manuals, or technical publications
• Foreign Military Sales or allied partner engagement experience
• Experience at a startup, a new program start, or as the first person supporting a program

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. Person
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret clearance, with the ability to obtain Top Secret access

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.