Wargaming Research & Systems Analyst — Red Cell

Role Overview

Wargaming Research & Systems Analyst — Red Cell at Anduril Industries, based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Initial hiring will take place in London, UK, with relocation upon completion of the simulation center.

Company Overview

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The company develops unmanned systems for subsurface, surface, land, and air domains leveraging unsupervised autonomy. 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. The company is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

Role Purpose

The Warfighting Systems Analyst produces, iterates, and supports Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (M&SA) including wargaming and experimentation for Anduril products. This role has a 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. This position is one of the first hires in a new agile team of wargaming analysts that will be plank owners of a new simulation center in the UAE.

Key Responsibilities

Simulation and Experimentation

• Leverage high-end models and simulations, including Anduril's Lattice Mission Simulation (MissionSim), to conduct simulation, experimentation, and training.
• 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.

System Analysis and Evaluation

• Support engineering and product teams by evaluating how platform, payload, autonomy, sensor, effector, communications, navigation, or C2 choices affect mission outcomes.
• Assess system-of-systems interactions, integration risks, dependencies, constraints, and mission impacts.
• Develop physics-based models and relevant operational scenarios, with an emphasis on modeling red and blue force systems and tactics.

Strategic Partnership and Communication

• Ensure system analysis remains grounded in real operational problems and customer needs.
• Collaborate with engineering and business development teams to demonstrate Anduril's capabilities and value proposition through rigorous, data-driven analysis.
• Communicate how system design decisions affect operational utility.

Qualifications & Experience

• Currently possess and be able to maintain an active country-specific Secret security clearance.
• 3+ years of experience in Operations Research, Systems Analysis (ORSA), systems engineering, mission engineering, test and evaluation, or a related technical-operational discipline.
• Experience with tactical experiments and wargaming design, including scenario development, data analytics, and trade-space analysis.
• Demonstrated experience in modeling and simulation for military missions, with a preference for a background in friendly and adversary tactics.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Operations Research, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Physics, Mathematics, or a related technical field (preferred).
• Operational military background with a subsequent transition into an ORSA, M&S, or Operations Analyst position (preferred).
• Experience with DoD M&S tools such as AFSIM, Brawler, Suppressor, ESAMS, or Command PE (preferred).
• Experience with AFSIM plug-in development or other advanced M&S framework customization (preferred).

Skills & Competencies

• Proficiency with C++ or Python for physics-based modeling and scripting.
• Ability to connect system performance, architecture, and design choices to mission outcomes.
• Ability to assess and solve problems, and to effectively communicate results through strong verbal and written skills.
• 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

• Ability to obtain and maintain a country-specific Top Secret security clearance (preferred).
• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees, supporting health, recovery, and related needs.
• Full-time position.