Hazard Zone Deployment Lead, Air Defense

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted the Air Defense team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking identification deterrence and defeat our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of UAS threats. Working across product engineering business development logistics operations and mission success the Air Defense team develops tests deploys and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems in challenging operational environments worldwide.

ABOUT THE JOB

In this role as a Deployment Lead on the Air Defense team you are responsible for delivering and sustaining a capability in Hazard Zones that meets our customers mission requirements and exceeds their expectations. You fulfill this responsibility through rigorous operational execution detail orientation proactive communication deep mission understanding and hard-won product expertise. You feel ownership over the health and performance of all assets and technologies deployed to your customers and users and ensure that the system delivers when they need it most. You represent Anduril to our customers building their confidence and trust through your professionalism and commitment to excellence. You also represent our customers back to Anduril communicating user feedback and lessons learned to continuously improve our product and our team in response to evolving mission needs. Above all you set the standard for what good looks like for your deployment and you rally your Anduril teammates to meet that standard every single day.

What Youll Do

• Deployment planning and execution: We execute hundreds of deployment events each year including site installations test and evaluation exercises demonstrations and training and maintenance visits. You will orchestrate these events leading a cross-functional team that spans hardware supply logistics engineering and more to do whatever it takes to achieve mission success for Anduril and our customers. Meticulous resourceful and detailed-oriented you will manage every step of the deployment process from site survey to testing pack-out installation training and sustainment. No job is too small. You consistently demonstrate extraordinary judgment grit and composure in high-pressure situations. You anticipate every contingency build lightweight processes soberly assess and mitigate risk and deliberately learn from your experiences to continuously improve.
• Relationship management: Operate independently in a high risk environment. Build trust with customers industry partners users and Anduril teammates through effective communication positive attitude and follow-through. With careful listening and observation you internalize your counterparts priorities and requirements. With empathy and responsiveness you quickly build rapport trust and confidence in our capability. You develop relationships across the organization and communicate honestly and directly. You are committed to giving and receiving feedback well. Your partners always know what you expect from them and know exactly what to expect from you.
• Mission expertise: Develop a deep knowledge of your customers mission requirements including the nature of the threats they face regulatory challenges resource constraints rules of engagement and more. You will become a subject matter expert and the voice of the customer capable of effectively communicating requirements and CONOPS to Anduril engineers so they can continue to enhance our capability to meet evolving mission needs. You are deeply motivated to shape the future of air defense.
• Product expertise: Develop a thorough understanding of the capabilities and limitations of Andurils Family of Systems. You are innately curious about the technology underpinning our capability and are not satisfied with a superficial understanding of how and why it works. You are constantly educating yourself about the strengths and weaknesses of different sensor modalities the challenges of sensor fusion power and networking requirements and more. You will become an opinionated power user who can reliably forecast how our capability will perform against a broad range of threat profiles environmental conditions and mission constraints.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced STEM degree or 4 years of technical work experience preferably in the defense national security or aerospace domain
• Highly organized creative problem-solver with proven project management skills
• Proven experience leading tech-enabled teams of peers while building a culture of influence through relationships
• Deep interest in national security issues and defense technologies with a commitment to lifelong learning
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
• Willing to travel up to 50% of the year: Hazard Zones for 35% other travel for 15%
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance.

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

Benefits

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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