Senior Mission Operations Engineer, Connected Warfare
Seattle · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · Seattle, WA (SEA-01) · Washington, DC (909) (Archived) · USD 129,000-208,000 · Full-time · Remote · Posted Sep 22, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Seattle · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · Seattle, WA (SEA-01) · Washington, DC (909) (Archived)
- Salary
- USD 129,000-208,000 · Base salary
About the role
- The Mission Operations team is responsible for managing the execution, delivery, growth, and success of customer accounts by embedding with units to deploy Anduril products.
- Mission Operations Engineers own and shape customer relationships, working side-by-side with users to understand specific problem sets and align Anduril's offerings with mission needs.
Responsibilities
- Orchestrate the deployment of Anduril products, lead planning and deployment of flagship hardware and software, train end users, and ensure high performance.
- Drive top line growth by establishing committed, trust-based partnerships and meeting commercial targets.
- Shape products to meet mission needs by working side-by-side with customers and representing them to engineering teams.
- Collaborate across internal teams including business development, engineering, product, logistics, finance, legal, contracting, and technical operations.
- Serve in a customer-facing Account Manager capacity, working directly with the United States Army to develop and deploy integrated hardware-software C2 products.
- Own contract deliverable delivery, including measures of performance and effectiveness, technical reports, and user development roadmaps.
- Design and implement user feedback loops to gather, triage, and prioritize requirements, feedback, issues, and challenges.
- Serve as a conduit between program and engineering teams to drive product features and configurations that enhance user workflows.
- Support engagement with other service components, Task Forces, Geographic Combatant Commands, and Government organizations.
- Develop and contribute to a streamlined user feedback and engagement system including issue tracking, training, qualification tracking, and exercise preparation.
Requirements
- Experience in program management, product deployment, or field engineering roles
- Exceptional interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with senior military leaders and officials
- Understanding of U.S. and allied military operations, doctrines, and multi-domain environments
- Experience translating and decomposing highly technical concepts into operational requirements and performance specifications
- Strong aptitude for problem solving in unstructured situations at the intersection of hardware, software, and networking
- Willing to travel as necessary (25-50%)
- Ability to work remotely across customer sites in Tacoma, WA
- Must possess an active U.S. Secret clearance
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in Defense Technology, Product or Program Management, Solutions Architect, or Technical Delivery-type roles
- Experience and familiarity with United States Army and/or Joint-Force intelligence, operational planning, targeting, and fires systems and workflows
- Experience and familiarity in mobile compute challenges and tradeoffs for dismounted soldiers in varying form factors
- Familiarity with operational constraints of military workflows in Disconnected, Denied, Intermittent, and Low-Bandwidth (DDIL) environments
- Familiarity with mesh networking and data federation across disparate systems
- Familiarity with doctrinal, functional, and technical command and control concepts, processes, and principles
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees supporting health, recovery, and other needs
Workplace
- Requires willingness to travel 25-50%.
Skills
- Lattice OS
- Machine Learning
- Autonomy
- Distributed Networking
- Sensor Fusion
- Mesh Networking
- Data Federation
