Mission Operations Engineer, Maritime

The role

This person will represent the operational perspective in cross-functional reviews and partner with engineers to ensure technical solutions meet warfighting needs. They will develop concepts of operation and analyze threat environments to inform capability roadmaps.

What you will do

• Represent the operational perspective in cross-functional reviews, gate decisions, and portfolio planning cycles.
• Partner with systems analysts, engineers, operators, program directors, and business-line leaders.
• Convert results from at-sea demonstrations and field test events into portfolio-level lessons.
• Understand enterprise-level mission analysis for the maritime portfolio.
• Develop and refine concepts of operation, concepts of employment, operational vignettes, mission threads, and use cases.
• Inform capability roadmaps, IRAD and investment prioritization, and product-market fit assessments.
• Analyze threat environments, customer missions, force structure, operational constraints, and campaign-level context.
• Compare alternative capability approaches and assess trade-offs in mission utility, feasibility, scalability, cost, survivability, and operational relevance.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience supporting maritime, undersea, or autonomous systems mission areas.
• 5+ years of maritime operational planning experience.
• Experience tactically employing AUV capabilities or equivalent autonomous system experience including water space coordination in the undersea domain.
• Demonstrated ability to brief and defend operational objectives and platform capabilities to senior military and civilian decision-makers.
• Ability to decompose ambiguous operational problems into structured executable strategies at the tactical level.
• Strong understanding of maritime missions, operational concepts, threat-informed planning, and the relationship between technology and warfighting outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence decisions across technical, operational, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to hold a portfolio-level view.
• Strong judgment, intellectual curiosity, and comfort operating with incomplete information in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to translate between customer language, operational need, product strategy, and engineering implications.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% to multiple company facilities, test and demonstration sites, customer locations, and at-sea or field events.

Nice to have

• Watch floor experience — TAO, watch officer, battle watch captain, or equivalent.
• Significant at-sea operational experience, including underway deployments.
• Prior military, DoD, defense industry, intelligence community, operational test, or tactical level development experience.
• Familiarity with CONOPS development, campaign analysis, wargaming, modeling and simulation, operational test, or requirements development.
• Experience working directly with government customers, senior military leaders, product teams, or engineering organizations.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
• 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.