Warfighting Capability Analyst, Maritime

About the role

Anduril is a defense technology company, bringing Silicon Valley talent and funding to the defense sector. Our technology helps our customers solve their toughest challenges by enabling them to make better, more informed decisions in life-and-death situations. We've assembled a diverse team of experts in artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensor fusion, optics, and data analysis to create software and hardware solutions that radically evolve the defense capabilities of the United States and its allies. If you are passionate about solving problems that have real impact, we want you to join Anduril and help us build the future of defense capability. At Anduril, we are developing unmanned systems for subsurface, surface, land, and air domains that will leverage unsupervised autonomy for the delivery of multi-mission capability to our customers. These projects require Warfighting Capability Analysts who can connect operational problems, threat-informed scenarios, customer needs, and product employment concepts to guide what we build and why it matters. We are looking for our next Warfighting Capability Analyst to join our rapidly growing team. This position is available in either Costa Mesa, CA or Quincy, MA. The Warfighting Capability Analyst supports the development, evaluation, and communication of mission-relevant defense capabilities. This role focuses on understanding what capability the warfighter requires, why it matters, how it would be employed, and how the company should prioritize solutions that deliver operational advantage. The analyst serves as a bridge between customers, business lines, engineering teams, product leaders, and operational stakeholders, translating ambiguous mission problems into structured capability gaps, concepts of employment, measures of effectiveness, operational vignettes, and decision-quality analysis that informs product strategy, growth, and program execution. This role is ideal for individuals who can reason across military operations, emerging technology, customer mission sets, and defense market dynamics, and who can communicate complex operational ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Conduct mission analysis to identify operational problems, capability gaps, and opportunities for differentiated product or system employment
• Develop and refine concepts of operation, concepts of employment, operational vignettes, mission threads, and use cases for current and future systems
• Analyze threat environments, customer missions, force structure, operational constraints, and campaign-level context to inform capability development
• Define measures of effectiveness, measures of performance, and operational value propositions for proposed capabilities
• Support product, growth, and engineering teams by translating customer needs and mission problems into capability priorities and defensible requirements
• Build clear, decision-oriented briefings, white papers, narratives, and analytic products for internal executives, customers, and external stakeholders
• Support capture, strategy, and business development efforts by articulating how company capabilities solve specific operational problems
• Compare alternative capability approaches and assess trade-offs in mission utility, feasibility, scalability, cost, survivability, and operational relevance
• Partner with systems analysts, engineers, operators, and business-line leaders to ensure technical solutions remain anchored to real warfighting needs
• Contribute to internal capability roadmaps, investment priorities, campaign analyses, and product-market fit assessments in defense contexts
• REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience in operational analysis, military planning, capability development, defense strategy, mission engineering, military operations, intelligence analysis, or a related field
• Ability to decompose ambiguous operational problems into structured analytic questions and actionable recommendations
• Strong understanding of military missions, operational concepts, threat-informed planning, and the relationship between technology and warfighting outcomes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce

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Additional Information

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.

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