Job Snapshot
Anduril Industries is hiring a Mission Operations Engineer for its Connected Warfare work in Costa Mesa, California. This role combines customer account ownership, defense product deployment, technical requirement translation, and direct support for United States Marine Corps command-and-control users. A Secret clearance or higher is required, and travel is listed at 25-50%.
Role Overview
This position sits at the intersection of mission operations, customer success, product deployment, and technical program execution. The Mission Operations Engineer will work directly with USMC stakeholders to deploy Anduril integrated hardware-software C2 products, capture field feedback, guide user engagement, and help internal teams adjust product features and configurations around operational needs.
About Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries builds defense technology for U.S. and allied military users, including AI-enabled command-and-control systems, autonomy, networking, computer vision, and sensor-fusion capabilities. The Connected Warfare division focuses on systems that link operators, sensors, platforms, and decision-makers across domains. This role supports the Mission Operations team, which owns customer execution, account growth, deployments, and mission outcomes.
What You Will Do
- Act as a customer-facing account lead for United States Marine Corps users adopting Anduril integrated hardware-software C2 products.
- Manage contract deliverables, including performance and effectiveness measures, technical reports, and user engagement roadmaps.
- Build feedback loops that collect, triage, and prioritize requirements, product issues, workflow pain points, and user challenges from training, exercises, and routine use.
- Partner with program and engineering teams to shape product features and configurations that improve command-and-control workflows.
- Support coordination with other service components, Geographic Combatant Commands, and government organizations when broader adoption or integration is needed.
- Contribute to a user engagement system covering issue tracking, training, refreshers, and preparation for large-scale exercises and events.
Must-Have Qualifications
- Experience in program management and product deployment roles.
- Strong interpersonal skills and experience managing stakeholders across customer and internal teams.
- Understanding of U.S. and allied military operations, doctrine, and multi-domain operating environments.
- Ability to translate technical concepts into operational requirements and performance specifications.
- Problem-solving ability across hardware, software, and networking issues, especially when requirements are ambiguous.
- Willingness to travel as needed, with the posting listing 25-50% travel.
- Secret clearance or higher.
Preferred Background
- Experience in defense technology product or program management, solutions architecture, or customer success roles.
- Familiarity with USMC intelligence, operational planning, targeting, and fires systems and workflows.
- Knowledge of doctrinal, functional, and technical command-and-control concepts, processes, and principles.
Skills Breakdown
The must-have skill set is a mix of customer leadership, defense operations knowledge, technical translation, and execution discipline. Candidates should be comfortable turning complex hardware, software, networking, and C2 concepts into usable requirements and field-ready plans. Preferred experience leans toward defense technology product management, solutions architecture, customer success, and USMC-specific workflows.
Compensation
The job posting lists a U.S. base salary range of $129,000 to $220,000 USD. The employer states that actual offers may vary based on factors such as work experience, education or training, critical skills, and business considerations. The posting also notes that equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package described by the employer as competitive and available at little to no cost to employees.
- Support for health, recovery, and future needs is referenced in the posting.
- Additional benefits details are provided by the employer through its benefits information.
Location And Work Model
The listed job location is Costa Mesa, California, United States. The posting does not specify a remote or hybrid policy, so candidates should confirm the expected work arrangement with Anduril during the process. The role requires 25-50% travel and an active Secret clearance or higher; visa sponsorship is not addressed in the provided content.