Lead Wargaming Research & Systems Analyst (WRSA)

Role Overview

Lead Warfighting Research & Systems Analyst (WRSA) at Anduril Industries. Initial hiring in London, UK; candidate will relocate to Abu Dhabi, UAE upon completion of the simulation center.

Company Overview

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. The company develops unmanned systems for subsurface, surface, land, and air domains leveraging unsupervised autonomy for multi-mission capability. 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 brings expertise, technology, and business model from the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, delivering cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

Role Purpose

The Lead Warfighting Research & Systems Analyst is responsible for producing, iterating, and supporting Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (M&SA) including wargaming and experimentation for Anduril products. The role serves 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. The Lead Warfighting Research & Systems Analyst will be the first hire and lead role in an extremely Agile team of wargaming analysts establishing 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

Analysis and Evaluation

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

Leadership and Collaboration

• Lead the warfighting capability analysts to 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

Qualifications & Experience

• Currently possess and be able to maintain an active country-specific Secret security clearance
• 7+ 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
• Ability to connect system performance, architecture, and design choices to mission outcomes
• 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)
• Ability to obtain and maintain a country-specific Top Secret security clearance (preferred)

Skills & Competencies

• Proficiency with C++ or Python for physics-based modeling and scripting
• Experience with DoD M&S tools, including AFSIM, Brawler, Suppressor, ESAMS, and Command PE (preferred)
• Experience with AFSIM plug-in development or other advanced M&S framework customization (preferred)
• Familiarity with YAML
• 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

This role is ideal for individuals who can reason across military operations and technical systems, evaluate performance tradeoffs, develop and deploy scenarios with Python and YAML, and communicate how system design decisions affect operational utility.

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 available at little to no cost to employees.