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Mission Operations Engineer

Anduril· Programs : Deployments : Integrated Product Support
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Costa Mesa, CA$112k - $149kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Engineer responsible for owning the Barracuda family of autonomous cruise missiles, including employment, mission planning, customer operations, field testing, and sustainment across development to O&S contracts. Roles include field work, customer enablement, and account growth with frequent domestic/international travel.

Responsibilities

  • Own the Barracuda mission. Become intimately familiar with the Barracuda product line, its employment and launch systems, mission planning workflows, and the customer operations and tactics it supports. Be the person the customer calls and the person engineering trusts to represent the operator.
  • Support test, demos, and events. Partner with Test & Evaluation to plan and execute flight tests, live-fire demonstrations, capability exercises, and customer events. Own the operational side of getting to the range: site coordination, hardware readiness, operator training, range and safety requirements, and debriefing results back to the customer and the product team.
  • Train and enable operators. Build and deliver the training that lets end users plan, load, and employ Barracuda without us in the room. Capture how they actually use the system and feed that back into TTPs, training products, and product requirements.
  • Shape the product. Translate customer mission problems into concrete engineering feedback and requirements. Represent the operator at design and program reviews and push hard on the changes that move mission effectiveness.
  • Grow into sustainment. Partner with Logistics and Integrated Product Support to stand up the support model behind a fielded munition: all-up-round accountability and spares, technical data and manuals, support equipment, storage and transportation, and field support concepts. As O&S contracts come online, own the operational side of delivering against them.
  • Grow the account. Build trust-based relationships from the operator to the executive level, articulate where Barracuda fits in the customer’s problem set, and support proposals and new opportunities that expand the program.

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.
  • Demonstrated ability to learn a complex weapon system end to end — hardware, software, employment systems, and the operations it supports — and explain it credibly to both operators and engineers.
  • Experience planning and executing field activity: tests, exercises, demonstrations, deployments, or live-fire events.
  • Strong technical aptitude and intellectual curiosity; comfortable working directly with engineers on a system you did not build.
  • Clear, direct written and verbal communication; able to distill a messy problem into a plan and drive it to completion.
  • Bias toward action and an ownership mentality — you find gaps and close them rather than reporting them.
  • 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.

Skills

Required:Barracuda product knowledgeField/test planning and executionOperator training and enablementCustomer engagement and account growthTechnical communicationTravel flexibility

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package (health, recovery, etc.), exploring benefits information at Anduril Careers page.
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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