Technical Operations Engineer, Maneuver Dominance

Anduril

Costa Mesa, United States
Base: $113,000 - $149,000 usd; bonus/equity: highl...
On-site
Field operations experience
Uav flight operations
Aircraft systems and sensors
Serve as a bridge between product engineering and deployed operations for autonomy-enabled UAVs, ensuring total mission success in austere environments

Job Summary

  • Serve as a bridge between product engineering and deployed operations for autonomy-enabled UAVs, ensuring total mission success in austere environments.
  • Be embedded within an air vehicle development program to shape and deploy solutions of maximum effectiveness and reliability.
  • Support test events and customer demonstrations, and be responsible for standing up forward-deployed operations and shaping long-term product sustainment.

Matching Summary

Serve as a bridge between product engineering and deployed operations for autonomy-enabled UAVs, ensuring total mission success in austere environments.

Salary

Base: $113,000 - $149,000 USD; Bonus/Equity: Highly competitive equity grants; Benefits: Top-tier benefits including comprehensive healthcare

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Field operations experience
  • UAV flight operations
  • Aircraft systems and sensors
  • Problem-solving in unstructured environments
  • Cross-functional team collaboration
  • Data-driven root cause analysis
  • Terminal environment and scripting
  • IP networking and troubleshooting
  • Radio systems (MANET, SATCOM)
  • Customer training
  • Deployment experience

Nice-to-have

  • Experience with developmental weapon systems
  • Autonomy development (Behavior Trees, CV models)
  • Ground-based air defense systems
  • Air breathing propulsion systems
  • Flight line operations
  • Munitions storage and handling

Key Requirements

  • Extensive hands-on technical experience
  • Prior military or defense contractor experience
  • Demonstrated understanding of flight operations
  • Ability to solve problems at hardware/software/operations interface
  • Experience with cross-functional teams and customers
  • Experience with data-driven root cause analysis
  • Intermediate to advanced computer and networking skills
  • Prior operationally relevant deployment experience
  • Willingness to travel up to 80%
  • Eligible for U.S. Top Secret clearance
  • Able to meet health and medical requirements for deployment

Work Rights

Must be eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

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