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Product Operations Lead, Homeland Security

Irvine, CA (OC-62)Full-time$101k–$135k2026-10-28 → 2026-11-10
Security clearance required

Core

Lead product operations and technical support for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) deployments, managing a team of specialists to ensure fleet reliability and operational excellence for Anduril's defense systems.

Role type

Senior Product Operations Lead (Defense/Security)

Builds

Real-time 3D command and control center systems powered by Lattice OS (AI, computer vision, sensor fusion)

Domain

Defense technology, Homeland Security, Electromechanical systems

Required skills

Team leadership and mentorship, Incident triage and root cause analysis, Fleet reliability management, Hardware maintenance (Linux CLI), Observability and telemetry improvement, SOP and knowledge base authoring

Preferred skills

Active U.S. Secret security clearance, Military or DoD civilian experience, Observability tooling (DataDog, Grafana, Palantir Foundry), Ticketing systems (Salesforce, Jira, ServiceNow), On-call support operations

Technologies

Linux, Lattice OS, DataDog, Grafana, Palantir Foundry, Salesforce, Jira, ServiceNow

Responsibilities

Manage and mentor Product Operations Technical Specialists, Serve as escalation point for complex incidents, Maintain operational readiness and on-call rotations, Act as primary customer contact for CBP and USCG, Sustain deployed fleet health and identify risks, Resolve product incidents and drive postmortems, Improve observability and telemetry, Perform hardware maintenance, Author SOPs and knowledge base articles

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership