Capability Associate, Air Defense

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 team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains Anduril’s Air Defense Family of Systems in challenging operational environments-worldwide.

The Mission Operations team is responsible for managing the delivery, sustainment, and growth of the capabilities we provide to our customers. Working across product, engineering, and logistics teams, our Capability Associates own the operational delivery and sustainment of Air Defense products within Anduril’s portfolio.
We are looking for a Capabilities Associate to join our Air Defense team to be the responsible for the delivery and sustainment of our existing and emerging maneuver counter-UAS products. This Associate will also work with Anduril Capability Leads, engineers and customers to further refine and scale products that are beyond their initial fielding stage.
You will be the product subject matter expert on the delivery of world-class Air Defense products and the continued sustainment/iterative refinement as technology and threats rapidly evolve. You fulfill this responsibility through rigorous operational execution, detail orientation, proactive communication, deep mission understanding, and hard-won product expertise. If you are passionate about delivering and educating others on ground-breaking technology, contributing to the national security mission, interacting with a wide range of experts, and providing user feedback and lessons learned to continuously improve our product and our team, then Anduril wants to hear from you.
We are a fast-growing company at the thralls of rapid growth and you will be expected to immediately develop and own material and projects during your time on the team which will have a significant impact on the program’s trajectory. Anduril fosters a diverse, collaborative, culture with plenty of opportunities for ownership and professional growth.

• Product delivery: Own systems that effectively deliver air defense capabilities into the hands of warfighters, as immense scale. You will manage the optimization of our service model, work with manufacturing and supply chain to ensure material readiness, and embed with account teams to coordinate delivery of procured products.
• Product sustainment at scale: You will execute the processes in which Anduril sustains delivered products, through their entire lifecycle, to include customer outreach, reactive/pro-active servicing, product revisioning, and return material authorization (RMA).
• Relationship management: Build trust with Anduril teammates, vendors, partners, potential customers and users through effective communication, positive attitude, and follow-through. You are able to brief customers on the processes that come with the products. Anduril is a lean, agile, engineering first organization. You must be able to develop relationships across the company to operate effectively. You must effectively communicate risks and expectations to a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Mission expertise: You will develop a deep understanding of mission requirements for emerging capabilities, including the nature of threats, operational and resource constraints, rules of engagement, and how they intersect with the end user’s experience. You must proactively communicate this understanding to Anduril’s capability delivery teams to enhance new technologies to support evolving mission needs and product no fit. You will deeply understand product development priorities and business development opportunities, and frame trade-offs to program and sales leaders.

• Proven experience participating in a technical team of peers to field hardware and software products to real operating environments at various scales
• Proven experience and aptitude in refining and optimizing operational processes
• 2+ years work experience in a technology company or as a part of a technical implementation team focused on initial fielding and sustainment of integrated hardware and software products
• Strong interest in Air Defense / Counter-UAS technologies, tactics, and strategy
• Eligible for a US DoD S/TS security clearance
• Can travel up to 75% of the year