Senior Mission Operations Engineer, Army Command and Control (Active Clearance)

Anduril • Aberdeen, MD

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About The Position

The Senior Mission Operations Engineer will lead the technical relationship between Anduril’s Connected Warfare/Mission Command teams and the Army Acquisition Enterprise and Army Network community. The role coordinates across Army acquisition organizations, operational units, third-party partners, and internal teams to design, integrate, test, and deploy Anduril products in support of Army command-and-control missions.

The engineer will drive system-of-systems design and integration, align stakeholders with competing technical and programmatic priorities, and help establish conditions for program expansion through successful delivery. The role includes planning and executing lab-based experimentation and validation, supporting deployments, and representing Army users’ workflows and feedback to product and engineering teams. Hands-on support for hardware and software integration is performed in customer test beds and company laboratories. The position also requires collaboration across engineering, product, logistics, business development, contracting, and technical operations teams.

The role requires deep knowledge of the U.S. Army acquisition community, modern C2 systems and workflows, and defense systems engineering. An active SECRET clearance and willingness to travel 25–50% are required. The listed U.S. salary range is $167,000–$240,000, base salary only. Anduril states that most full-time offers include competitive equity grants and that full-time employees receive a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Deep domain expertise in the U.S. Army acquisition community, including familiarity with modern C2 systems, workflows, and tactical operations.
• Experience developing computable, data-driven architectures for large systems-of-systems deployments.
• Proven experience in systems engineering roles within defense technology.
• Familiarity with Army connected C2 systems, such as NGC2 or C2 Now.
• Interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills, with demonstrated ability to build trust with technical and non-technical military leaders.
• Willingness to travel 25–50%.
• Active SECRET clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience with the acquisition side of Army capability portfolios.
• Experience in defense technology product management, solutions architecture, or technical customer success roles.
• Familiarity with modern software development concepts, including APIs, containerization, tactical cloud, and data-fusion pipelines.
• Understanding of tactical networking, especially in constrained environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team serving as the primary technical interface between the Army Acquisition Enterprise and the Anduril Mission Command team.
• Ensure programs are designed as constraint-informed, comprehensive systems of systems, with Anduril products integrated to support program success.
• Execute Anduril’s systems-of-systems approach through the CPE C2IN Tiered Governance structure.
• Set conditions for program expansion by delivering turnkey capability and designing, proposing, and executing programmatic and business approaches for broader integration and deployment across CPE portfolios.
• Inform product roadmaps so Anduril’s commercial capabilities address Army Network Enterprise and operational end-user needs.
• Understand connected systems, including NGC2 and other modernized command-and-control and intelligence nodes, and shape technical integration approaches with the Army community.
• Provide basic, hands-on operational and technical integration support for Anduril hardware and software in customer test beds and company laboratories.
• Design and implement user-feedback loops to gather, triage, and prioritize requirements and integration challenges identified during lab testing, exercises, and field evaluations.
• Collaborate with software and hardware engineering teams to align systems with Army open-architecture standards and interface guidelines.
• Plan and execute lab-based experimentation and validation with Anduril and government engineers and testing teams.
• Coordinate product planning, integration, and deployment with engineering, logistics, and technical operations teams.
• Build and maintain stakeholder relationships across Army acquisition organizations, third-party partners, operational units, and internal teams.

Benefits

• Competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed