Director, Business Development, Group 5 Mission Autonomy

Anduril Industries
Costa Mesa, California, United StatesPosted 24 February 2026

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><h3>ABOUT THE TEAM</h3> <p>The Air Dominance and Strike Division is one of Anduril’s fastest growing divisions. Our goal is to fundamentally reshape the way future peer to peer conflicts are fought by developing next generation collaborative combat aircraft, missiles, and the software that powers these autonomous weapons. The Division is made up of three separate Business Lines: Autonomous Airpower, Advanced Effects, and Mission Autonomy. <br><br>Air Dominance and Strike has developed hardware including the Fury and Barracuda Autonomous Air Vehicles and software namely Lattice for Mission Autonomy. We continually strive to push the boundaries of the possible in terms of capability and redefining performance for the defense industry.<br><br></p> <h3>ABOUT THE JOB</h3> <p>The Mission Autonomy (MA) Business Development (BD) team, within Anduril’s Air Dominance and Strike division, is responsible for identifying, shaping, capturing, and growing new opportunities and capabilities that cement Anduril as the leader in high-performance autonomous systems. To meet current and future client needs, the team must deeply understand the users' pain points, how current solutions fail to address existing gaps, and how Anduril products can deliver more effective mission outcomes. BD team members serve as the bridge between clients and the broader Anduril team; they convey client perspectives to other teams across the enterprise while also serving as the Anduril brand ambassador externally. MA BD Team members are given significant autonomy in job function to empower them to deliver the best high-performance software solutions to the DoD and international partners. They partner extensively with the broader ADS division, inclusive of engineering, program management, government relations and marketing to ensure that our products exceed client expectations and mission demands.<br><br>As our team continues to quickly grow, we are looking for motivated candidates that are inspired to work within an extremely energetic, driven, and innovative team that is passionate about delivering relevant capabilities to the DOD and our partners and allies. We work in a highly dynamic environment where problem solving, collaboration and relentlessness are a way of life. We are seeking a Director for Large UAV (Group 5), Mission Autonomy Growth to join the team and help continue to support our hyper-growth Division.<br><br></p> <h4>WHAT YOU’LL DO</h4> <ul> <li>As part of the ADS Growth team you will support our Group 5 Air Vehicle, Mission Autonomy division through various internal and external activities to implement strategic initiatives, identify new opportunities, grow the division, and bring in business.</li> <li>Actively contribute to the Division’s growth by identifying and pursuing new business opportunities, in addition to maintaining and manage an up-to-date and accurate sales pipeline, ensuring clear visibility of potential opportunities and progress.</li> <li>Analyze understand existing and prospective customer base to develop capture strategies, revenue forecasts, and drive technology development plans.</li> <li>Coordinate activities across the ADS Division and facilitate internal communications, includin ... (truncated, view full listing at source)