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Mission Operations Engineer, Maritime

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Undersea Dominance - Engineering & Operations : Program & Product Management
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Costa Mesa, CA$167k - $222kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Operations Engineer in the maritime domain to translate operational problems into defensible, executable roadmaps. The role involves customer engagement, at-sea demonstrations, and briefing senior decision-makers, with up to 50% travel and proximity to product leadership and engineering teams at the Costa Mesa, CA headquarters.

Responsibilities

  • Represent the operational perspective in cross-functional reviews, gate decisions, and portfolio planning cycles, and serve as a trusted interpreter between customer language, operational need, product strategy, and engineering implications
  • Partner with systems analysts, engineers, operators, program directors, and business-line leaders to ensure technical solutions remain anchored to real warfighting needs as programs mature
  • Convert results from at-sea demonstrations, field test events, and program execution into portfolio-level lessons that change what we build, closing the loop between the deck plate and the roadmap
  • Understand the enterprise-level mission analysis for the maritime portfolio — identify operational problems, capability gaps, and opportunities for differentiated system employment, and maintain a coherent picture of them across programs
  • Develop and refine concepts of operation, concepts of employment, operational vignettes, mission threads, and use cases for current and future systems
  • Inform capability roadmaps, IRAD and investment prioritization, and product-market fit assessments by making the operational case for where the next dollar and the next engineer should go
  • Analyze threat environments, customer missions, force structure, operational constraints, and campaign-level context, and translate that context into capability priorities and defensible requirements for product and engineering teams
  • Compare alternative capability approaches and assess trade-offs in mission utility, feasibility, scalability, cost, survivability, and operational relevance

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience supporting maritime, undersea, or autonomous systems mission areas; experience across air, surface, C2, ISR, fires, or logistics is also valued
  • 5+ years of maritime operational planning experience — building, staffing, and executing operational or campaign plans in the maritime domain at a unit, strike group, numbered fleet, MOC, or component command level
  • 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 and limitations in front of senior military and civilian decision-makers —Commanding Officers, high-level civilians, and corporate executives
  • 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 the 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: comfort working several programs, mission areas, and time horizons in parallel
  • 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
  • Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:Maritime operations and mission analysisOperational planning and warfighting concepts

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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