Operations Analyst (Scenario Design), Discovery

Anduril Industries

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Costa Mesa, CA
Salary
$146,000–$194,000 / yr
Posted
today

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $162k
This role $170k
$121k most similar roles pay here $202k

This role pays more than 67% of similar roles. Most pay $130,750–$193,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $170k versus about $162k for comparable roles.

Based on 239 similar postings.

Employer

About Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that builds advanced hardware and software systems for national security, including autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and the Lattice AI command platform.

Anduril Industries currently has 1882 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $146,000–$194,000 across 1696 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Anduril Industries

At a glance

TL;DR · Operations Analyst (Scenario Design), Discovery

As an Operations Analyst (Scenario Design) at Anduril's Lattice Showcase team, you will work on crafting compelling and operationally credible demonstrations that showcase the company’s technology in solving real-world defense challenges. Your day-to-day responsibilities include designing high-fidelity mission simulations, building simulation logic using tools like AFSIM, STK, MATLAB/Simulink, and Python (NumPy/SciPy), and collaborating with various product teams to ensure technical accuracy while maintaining narrative clarity for decision-makers. You will also validate scenarios through iterative testing and work closely with military experts to refine tactics and engagement behaviors. The role requires a strong background in systems engineering or related fields, experience with simulation tools, and the ability to balance technical depth with storytelling skills.

What you'll do

  • Design and develop high-fidelity mission simulations that model real-world defense environments.
  • Build simulation logic to accurately represent autonomous platforms, sensors, weapons, and command-and-control behaviors.
  • Develop operational models capturing radar behavior, sensor performance, platform interactions, and environmental effects.
  • Implement and integrate simulation components using tools like AFSIM, STK, MATLAB/Simulink, or Python-based frameworks.
  • Validate scenario designs through iterative testing to ensure operational realism and technical accuracy.
  • Collaborate with product teams to ensure simulation behaviors reflect real system capabilities and limitations.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research, Modeling & Simulation, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 2+ years of professional experience developing simulations for defense, aerospace, autonomy, robotics, or similar domains
  • Experience with modeling and simulation tools like AFSIM, STK, MATLAB/Simulink, Python-based scientific computing frameworks
  • Strong communication skills to create clear design documentation and incorporate stakeholder feedback
  • Hands-on experience designing behavior trees, autonomy logic, state machines for simulated systems
  • Active U.S. Secret security clearance required

More like this

Similar roles

Technical Operations Specialist, Discovery

Anduril Industries

Costa Mesa, CA today $113,000$149,000
AR/VR Sand Table Networking Confluence Jira Simulation Technology Real-time 3D Environments Troubleshooting Software Development Workflows Bug Tracking Systems CI/CD AWS Kubernetes Terraform Python PostgreSQL

AI Engineering Operations Analyst

Qualcomm

San Diego, CA 14 days ago $108,000$162,000
Python JavaScript PowerPoint AI Kubernetes Terraform AWS Azure GCP CI/CD Git JIRA Confluence PostgreSQL MongoDB Docker Prometheus Grafana Ansible

Operations Lead, Discovery

Anduril Industries

Costa Mesa, CA today $146,000$194,000
Salesforce Agile CI/CD APIs Middleware Distributed Systems Modular System Architectures Python PostgreSQL Kubernetes AWS Terraform Docker Prometheus Grafana

Sr. Technical Data and Operations Analyst

Palo Alto Networks

Santa Clara, CA 1 day ago $145,000$235,500
SQL Python CDP CRM Snowflake BigQuery AI ML Generative AI Predictive Modeling Agile Methodologies GDPR CCPA CI/CD

Sr. Business Analyst - Risk AI Strategy

Capital One Financial

McLean, VA 56 days ago $111,200$126,900
Python SQL Tableau PowerBI Excel Jupyter AWS Azure GoogleCloud CI/CD MLOps Git GitHub Kubernetes Docker Terraform PostgreSQL Snowflake Scikit-learn TensorFlow PyTorch

Principal Product Operations and Risk Analyst

Circle

San Francisco, CA 53 days ago $185,000$237,500
SQL Python Kubernetes AWS CI/CD Terraform Docker Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL GitLab Jira Confluence Zendesk Snowflake Tableau PowerBI GitHub Google Cloud Platform Azure