Technical Project Manager - Sim Center Team Lead

About This Role

This role is a project management position responsible for producing, iterating, and supporting modeling, simulation, and analysis, including wargaming and experimentation for the company's products. It has a three-fold purpose: to train customers in capabilities, conduct internal analysis for product improvement, and learn customer needs. The position suits an individual who can reason across military operations and technical systems, lead an interdisciplinary team, and communicate with stakeholders while keeping projects on time and budget.

Responsibilities

• Serve as project manager for standing up a tactical wargaming center in the UAE
• 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 an emphasis on modeling red and blue force systems and tactics
• Assess system-of-systems interactions, integration risks, dependencies, constraints, and mission impacts
• Lead the wargamers, system administrators, and operations personnel to ensure the center remains operational, providing training services to warfighters who also participate in wargaming and training
• Collaborate with engineering and business development teams to demonstrate Anduril's capabilities and value proposition through rigorous, data-driven analysis

Requirements

• 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
• 4+ years of experience in project management, agile project management, SCRUM, KANBAN, etc.
• Experience with tactical experiments and wargaming design, including scenario development, data analytics, and trade-space analysis
• 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

Nice to have:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent
• Ability to obtain and maintain a country-specific Top Secret security clearance
• Experience with DevOps, DevSecOps, and other hardware/software integrations
• Operational military background with a subsequent transition into an ORSA, M&S, or Operations Analyst position
• Familiarity with model-based systems engineering, digital engineering, operational test, or experimentation
• Experience developing KPPs, KSAs, MOEs, MOPs, requirements, test objectives, or system performance assessments