Anduril Industries
Mission Operations Engineer
About this role
Anduril Industries seeks a Mission Operations Engineer to lead the deployment and operational success of advanced aerial drone systems for defense customers. This role combines technical field deployment, customer relationship management, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure mission success while driving commercial growth.
What you'll do
- Lead planning and deployment of Ghost-X and other Anduril products to customer locations, including field training and performance management
- Manage customer relationships across operational and executive levels while meeting commercial growth targets
- Represent customer needs to engineering teams to shape product development for mission-critical applications
- Coordinate with logistics, technical operations, and engineering teams to ensure successful product deployment and troubleshooting
- Travel extensively (up to 75%) to support forward-deployed customer accounts nationwide and internationally
- Monitor customer engagement and product performance to drive continuous improvement in user experience
What they're looking for
- Project management and deployment coordination
- Customer relationship management and stakeholder engagement
- Cross-functional team collaboration
- Technical problem-solving and troubleshooting
- Field operations and training capability
- Strategic business development
- Communication across technical and executive audiences
- Adaptability in complex, dynamic environments
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Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries builds autonomous defense systems including underwater vehicles, unmanned aircraft, and electronic warfare platforms for the Department of Defense. The company is hiring across mechanical engineering, mission operations, software development, technical leadership, and advanced manufacturing roles to support the design, deployment, and production of these mission-critical systems.
- Website
- anduril.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience deploying complex hardware and software systems in the field. How did you ensure customer success and what challenges did you overcome?
- Tell us about a time you had to balance competing priorities across multiple internal teams. How did you ensure alignment and keep the customer mission on track?