- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- IrvineCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Customer Success
- Posted
- Aug 14, 2026
- Salary
- $112,000–$149,000 a year
Deployment Lead, West Coast
Job description
We build 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 Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS) 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, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the CUAS team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril CUAS Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.
Job responsibilities
- Mission execution : Do whatever it takes to achieve mission success for Anduril and our customers. Meticulous, resourceful, and detail-oriented, you will manage every step of the deployment process, from site survey to…
- Relationship management : Build trust with customers, users, and Anduril teammates through effective communication, positive attitude, and follow-through.
- Mission expertise : Develop a deep knowledge of your customer’s mission requirements, including the nature of the threats they face, regulatory challenges, resource constraints, rules of engagement, and more.
- Product expertise : Develop a thorough understanding of the capabilities and limitations of Anduril’s CUAS Family of Systems.
- Project planning and execution: plan and execute complex hardware movements, site installations
- Site sustainment operations: Tier 1 troubleshooting and user engagements, issue resolution and escalation, reporting, working with data
- Communicate plans and timelines to the customer and to internal counterparts
- Drive cross-functional/integrated program team: lead an integrated team to deliver capability, create focus, drive execution
Job requirements
- Advanced degree or 4+ years experience in a technical field
- Deep interest in national security issues and defense technologies, with a commitment to lifelong learning
- Proven customer-facing program management and/or systems engineering experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domain
- Proven experience leading a team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments
- Can travel up to 50% of the year
- Applicant must have experience demonstrating an ability to lead tech enabled teams while building a culture of influence through relationships
- The applicant brings innovative solutions for strategic impact to issues challenging the organization and customer alike
- Applicant is highly effective with coordinating cross-functional teams and subject matter experts of engineers, operations, logistics, etc. to rally in the accomplishment of a unified goal
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