Anduril
Senior Mission Operations Engineer, Strategic Defense
$167K–$222K
Washington, District of Columbia, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 10, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; no alternatives stated.
About the job
Own deployments and sustainment of Anduril compute hardware at government sites, serving as a customer liaison and coordinating integrations, fleet management, and operational readiness.
What you'll do
- Plan and execute hardware deployments, site surveys, acceptance testing, and sustainment.
- Coordinate government customer needs with engineering teams and integrate third-party systems into Anduril hardware.
- Track deployed assets, configurations, software baselines, and system health; support updates and incident response with SRE teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in site operations, field engineering, systems deployment, or technical program management in defense or national security environments.
- Hands-on experience deploying and sustaining compute hardware in operational or lab environments.
- Experience liaising between engineering teams and government customers, and working with software engineering and/or SRE teams.
- Ability to travel 25–50% and maintain an active U.S. TS/SCI security clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience with Anduril hardware platforms (Menace, Voyager) or similar systems; familiarity with Lattice OS or similar distributed C2 operating systems.
- Background in missile defense, integrated air and missile defense (IAMD), or space defense programs.
Pay
$167,000 — $222,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Menace-T, Menace-I, Voyager, Lattice OS, SRE, CI/CD, IP networking, mesh networking
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