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Deployment Lead, Air Defense

Anduril· AFS : Air Defense Engineering
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Irvine$112k - $149kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Mission Operations Deployment Lead responsible for delivering and sustaining Anduril’s Air Defense capability, ensuring it meets customer mission requirements, coordinating cross-functional teams, managing deployments, and communicating feedback to continuously improve the product and team.

Responsibilities

  • Deployment planning and execution: orchestrate site installations, test and evaluation exercises, demonstrations, and training/maintenance visits across hardware supply, logistics, engineering, and other teams; manage all deployment steps from site survey to testing, pack-out, installation, training, and sustainment.
  • Relationship management: build trust with customers, partners, users, and teammates through effective communication and follow-through.
  • Mission expertise: develop deep knowledge of customer mission requirements, threats, regulatory challenges, resource constraints, and rules of engagement; act as voice of the customer for engineers.
  • Product expertise: understand Anduril’s Family of Systems, sensor modalities, sensor fusion, power and networking requirements, and forecast performance across threat profiles and mission constraints.

Qualifications

  • Advanced degree or 5+ years experience in a technical field, preferably in defense/national security/aerospace
  • Highly organized creative problem-solver with proven project management skills
  • Experience creating and maintaining documentation for new or developing processes
  • Proven experience leading tech-enabled teams and building a culture of influence through relationships
  • Deep interest in national security issues and defense technologies with a commitment to lifelong learning
  • Experience translating technical concepts into operational requirements and performance specifications
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize tasks
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
  • Willing to travel up to 50% of the time, including periodic overseas and hazard zone travel

Skills

Required:Deployment planning and executionRelationship managementMission expertiseProduct expertise

Benefits

  • comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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