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What an Anduril forward deployed engineer does

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An Anduril forward deployed engineer (FDE) goes into the field with hardware. The role sits in Deployment Operations. Anduril says it is known inside the company as Technical Operations Engineer.

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The Anduril forward deployed engineer is a field job

Anduril's Air Defense FDE posting says you will deploy and support Anduril products "all over the world". You go out with products early in their life and feed what you learn back to engineering.

The work includes field maintenance, customer training and troubleshooting across hardware, software and networking. It also includes finding the root cause of incidents.

The role is based in Costa Mesa and is not open to remote or hybrid work. It asks for experience solving problems in unstructured settings, where hardware, software and networking meet.

How the Anduril role compares

Palantir and Scale AI also send FDEs to defence customers, but their engineers mostly build software. Anduril's Air Defense FDE spends more time with physical systems.

Anduril also hires a Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer for Strategic Defense, in Costa Mesa or Washington, DC. That role involves long trips to the Asia Pacific region.

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