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Salary: USD 166,000 - 220,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Operations Lead for its maritime portfolio. This role bridges operational expertise and product strategy at the enterprise level, based at the Costa Mesa headquarters.
You will own enterprise-level mission analysis for the maritime portfolio, identifying operational problems, capability gaps, and opportunities for differentiated system employment. Your work will span multiple programs simultaneously, maintaining a coherent picture of the maritime suite of products and communicating it to customers.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and refining concepts of operation, concepts of employment, operational vignettes, mission threads, and use cases for current and future systems, keeping them current as designs and customer priorities evolve
- Informing capability roadmaps, IRAD and investment prioritization, and product-market fit assessments by making the operational case for where the next dollar and engineer should go
- Analyzing threat environments, customer missions, force structure, operational constraints, and campaign-level context, translating that into capability priorities and defensible requirements
- Comparing alternative capability approaches and assessing trade-offs in mission utility, feasibility, scalability, cost, survivability, and operational relevance
- Converting results from at-sea demonstrations, field test events, and program execution into portfolio-level lessons that change what gets built
- Partnering with systems analysts, engineers, operators, program directors, and business leaders to ensure technical solutions remain anchored to real warfighting needs
- Representing the operational perspective in cross-functional reviews, gate decisions, and portfolio planning cycles
- Briefing Commanding Officers, high-level civilians, and executive leadership, defending operational objectives and platform capabilities under direct questioning
You will spend significant time in rooms where trades get made: pressure-testing concepts of employment with engineers, reconciling field reality with product roadmaps, and giving executives the operational case they need to commit capital. Expect up to 50% travel across company facilities, test and demonstration sites, waterfront and fleet concentration areas, and customer locations.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Maritime operational planning experience: building, staffing, and executing operational or campaign plans at unit, strike group, numbered fleet, MOC, or component command level
- Experience tactically employing AUV capabilities or equivalent autonomous system experience
- Demonstrated ability to brief and defend operational objectives and platform capabilities in front of senior military and civilian decision-makers, including under direct and skeptical questioning
- 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, including ability to produce executive-level briefings
- Demonstrated ability to influence decisions across technical, operational, and business stakeholders without owning them
- Ability to hold a portfolio-level view and prioritize among multiple programs, mission areas, and time horizons
- 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%
- Currently possesses and able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
PREFERRED:
- 8+ years supporting maritime, undersea, or autonomous systems mission areas
- 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 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
