Technical Project Manager - Sim Center Team Lead

Role Overview

Technical Project Manager - Sim Center Team Lead at Anduril Industries. The candidate will be hired into London, UK, before relocating to Abu Dhabi, UAE upon completion of the center.

Company Overview

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Anduril develops unmanned systems for subsurface, surface, land, and air domains leveraging unsupervised autonomy for multi-mission capability. The company'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. Anduril provides training and experimentation services to partners and customers, delivering cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military.

Role Purpose

The Warfighter Simulation Team Lead serves as project manager for producing, iterating, and supporting Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (M&SA) including wargaming and experimentation for Anduril products. The role has three-fold purpose: train customers in Anduril capabilities, conduct internal analysis to support iterative improvement of current and future products, and learn specific customer needs to ensure the right product is produced for the right reasons. The team leader acts as the fusion between analysts, wargamers, system administrators, engineers, and warfighters.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management

• Serve as project manager for standing up a tactical wargaming center in the UAE.
• Lead an Agile team of wargaming analysts, keeping the wargaming project on time and budget.
• Lead the wargamers, system administrators, and operations personnel to ensure the center remains operational.

Scenario Development & Analysis

• Develop scenarios based on customer needs to demonstrate capabilities.
• Design, execute, and analyze tactical engagement-level and mission-level analysis and wargames to assess autonomous system capabilities and refine tactics.
• Develop physics-based models and relevant operational scenarios, with emphasis on modeling red and blue force systems and tactics.

Systems Assessment

• Assess system-of-systems interactions, integration risks, dependencies, constraints, and mission impacts.
• Connect system performance, architecture, and design choices to mission outcomes.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with engineering and business development teams to demonstrate Anduril's capabilities and value proposition through rigorous, data-driven analysis.
• Provide training services to warfighters, who also participate in wargaming and training.
• Communicate results to key stakeholders effectively through strong verbal and written skills.

Qualifications & Experience

• 7+ years of experience in Operations Research, Systems Analysis (ORSA), systems engineering, mission engineering, test and evaluation, or a related technical-operational discipline.
• 4+ years of experience in project management, agile project management, SCRUM, KANBAN, or equivalent.
• Experience with tactical experiments and wargaming design, including scenario development, data analytics, and trade-space analysis.

Skills & Competencies

• Ability to connect system performance, architecture, and design choices to mission outcomes.
• Ability to assess and solve problems and effectively communicate results through strong verbal and written skills.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent preferred.
• Experience with DevOps, DevSecOps, and hardware/software integrations preferred.
• Familiarity with model-based systems engineering, digital engineering, operational test, or experimentation preferred.
• Experience developing KPPs, KSAs, MOEs, MOPs, requirements, test objectives, or system performance assessments preferred.
• Experience with defense systems, autonomous systems, maritime systems, undersea systems, sensors, effectors, communications, navigation, C2, or ISR mission systems preferred.

Additional Information

• Currently possess and be able to maintain an active country-specific Secret security clearance required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a country-specific Top Secret security clearance preferred.
• Operational military background with subsequent transition into an ORSA, M&S, or Operations Analyst position preferred.
• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
• Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive and competitive benefits packages available at little to no cost to employees.
• For additional information regarding benefits and data privacy, visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/.