About the Company

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 Job

We are looking for a Mission Analyst to serve as Anduril’s tactical-level interface with the military operatorsand planners who will employ our autonomous maritime systems. This is the person the customer workswith day-to-day — embedded in their environment, speaking their language, and ensuring our capability isemployed effectively.

This is not a desk job. You’ll be working alongside the customer, deployed on exercises, delivering training,supporting mission planning, and feeding operational reality back into engineering. You’ll help shape howthe capability is used, how operators are trained, and how lessons from the field make it back to the peoplebuilding the system.

This position is available in Sydney, Australia. While based in Sydney, this role requires regular travel tocustomer sites, exercises, and operations.

What You’ll Do

- Support development of mission plans for exercises, demonstrations, operational test and evaluation,and operational employment
- Provide tactical advice to customer planners on system capabilities, limitations, and employment options
- Develop and maintain tactical procedures, checklists, planning aids, and quick-reference materials
- Contribute to the development and refinement of Concepts of Employment (CONEMP) and Tactics,Techniques and Procedures (TTPs)
- Support the training organisation in the delivery of operator training, including preparation of trainingmaterials and subject matter support during course delivery
- Provide operational mentoring and tactical coaching to operators during exercises and employmentactivities
- Plan and execute Anduril’s operational contribution to exercises and demonstrations
- Capture user feedback on system performance, usability, and employment concepts and translate it intoactionable input for engineering and product teams




- Identify gaps in procedures, training, or system capability from the operator’s perspective and advocatefor the user within Anduril
- Ensure operating procedures and training content reflect current employment concepts and real-worldoperational patterns
- Build and maintain trusted peer-level relationships with customer operators and planners throughpersistent presence and demonstrated competence
- Support post-exercise debriefs and lessons learned capture, feeding outcomes back into CONEMP,TTPs, and training content
- Contribute operational input to program reporting and customer performance reviews

Required Qualifications

- Experience in operational planning, mission analysis, capability development, or a related field such as defence, aviation, mining, or complex logistics
- Demonstrated ability to work at the tactical level — translating system capabilities into practical employment options
- Experience delivering training, instruction, or coaching in a Defence or technical context
- Strong interpersonal skills — able to build trust with military operators and planners as a credible peer
- Comfortable working autonomously in a customer environment with minimal direction
- Ability to translate complex system capabilities into clear operational language that users can act on
- Strong written communication — able to produce tactical procedures, planning aids, and operational reports
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a Negative Vetting Level 2 (NV2) security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

- Military background with operational experience in a maritime environment (submarine, surface warfare, mine countermeasures, or equivalent)
- Experience with autonomous systems, unmanned platforms, or emerging military technology
- Experience in a Defence industry customer-facing role
- Knowledge of undersea warfare and maritime warfare concepts
- Understanding of Defence acquisition processes
- Experience contributing to Concept of Operations (CONOPS), CONEMP, or TTP development
- Experience with operational test and evaluation, exercise planning, or wargaming

Salary and Benefits





The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier advantages for full-time employees, including:

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

Eligibility

Eligible to obtain and maintain a Negative Vetting Level 2 (NV2) security clearance.

AUSTRALIAN CLEARANCE ELIGIBILITY - This position requires eligibility to obtain and maintain an Australian security clearance.

Equal Opportunity

As set forth in Anduril Industries’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

A 'disabled veteran' is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A 'recently separated veteran' means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An 'active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran' means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An 'Armed forces service medal veteran' means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.

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📌 Mission Analyst (New South Wales)
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📍 New South Wales