Field Network Technician, Maneuver Dominance

About the Role

• Serve as a bridge between product engineering and deployed operations for autonomy enabled UAVs.
• Practice extreme ownership of all dependencies to ensure mission success in austere, remote environments.
• Be embedded within an air vehicle development program to leverage operations and technical expertise.
• Shape and deploy solutions of maximum effectiveness and reliability.
• Stand up forward-deployed operations in austere environments.
• Ensure the successful combat employment of Anduril products.
• Shape the long-term sustainment of products.
• Support the development of vehicle autonomy by supporting test events and customer demonstrations.

Key Responsibilities

• Extensive hands-on technical experience in field operations, manufacturing, or test.
• 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.
• Experience working with cross-functional engineering teams and external customers.
• Experience performing data-driven root cause analysis on complex systems using logs.
• Demonstrated ability to train peers or customers on product operation.
• Must have prior, operationally relevant, deployment experience.
• Willingness to travel up to 80%, including occasional deployments for up to two months.
• 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 for deployments.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Intermediate to advanced understanding and experience with 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, Backhaul systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering or related discipline (Preferred).
• Hands-on professional experience working with developmental weapon or missile systems on manned and/or unmanned aircraft (Preferred).
• Experience with one or more of the following (Preferred):
• 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 controls.