Field Network Technician, Maneuver Dominance
Anduril IndustriesCosta Mesa, California, United StatesPosted 7 April 2026
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Job Description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a member of the Maneuver Dominance Technical Operations team, you will serve as a bridge between product engineering and deployed operations for autonomy enabled UAVs. You will practice extreme ownership of all dependencies to ensure that Anduril’s growing suite of capabilities achieve total mission success in austere, remote environments. To this end, you will be embedded within an air vehicle development program where you will leverage your operations and technical expertise to shape and deploy a solution of maximum effectiveness and reliability. Your scope will include standing up forward-deployed operations in austere environments, ensuring the successful combat employment of Anduril products, and shaping the long-term sustainment of these products. In addition, you will be a core participant in supporting the development of vehicle autonomy by supporting test events and customer demonstrations closer to home.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Extensive hands-on (field operations, manufacturing, or test) technical experience
Prior military or defense contractor experience as a manned or unmanned pilot/operator, Network technician, or Crew Chief/maintainer (Avionics, GNC, Electrical)
Demonstrated understanding of flight operations, aircraft systems, and sensors
Demonstrated ability to solve problems in unstructured situations at the interface of hardware, software, and operations in pursuit of mission success
Experience working with cross-functional engineering teams and external customers; demonstrated ability to collect differing opinions and reconcile them in order to achieve agreement on what ‘right’ looks like
Experience performing data-driven root cause analysis on complex systems using logs as a source of truth
Intermediate to advanced understanding and experience for some or all of the following: - Computers; comfortable in a terminal environment, server management, developing or interacting with programming languages (e.g. Python, Rust, MATLAB) - IP Networking; Network Administration or Design, strong troubleshooting experience required - Radios; MANET, SATCOM, Backhual systems
Demonstrated ability to train peers or customers on the operation of a product
Must have prior, operationally relevant, deployment experience
Willingness to travel up to 80% including occasional deployments for up to two months at a time
Able to work extended hours as required
Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S.Top Secret security clearance
Able to meet health and medical requirements in advance of deployments in accordance with DFARS 252.225-7040 , DoDI 3020.41, and/or any additional requirements outlined by region or supporting force, as applicable.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering or related discipline
Hands-on professional experience working with developmental weapon or missile systems on manned and/or unmanned aircraft
Experience with one or more of: - Autonomy; Behavior Trees, CV models, multi-vehicle operation - Ground-based air defense systems, either sensors or effectors - Operations and maintenance of air breathing propulsion systems - Aircraft or launch vehicle flight line operations - Munitions storage and handling control ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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