Technical Project Manager – Sim Center Team Lead

Overview

Lead Warfighting Systems Analyst role at Anduril in Abu Dhabi (UK relocation) focused on standing up a tactical wargaming center, conducting scenarios and analyses to demonstrate and refine autonomous system capabilities. You will bridge analysts, wargamers, and warfighters to deliver data-driven insights, support product improvement, and tailor solutions to customer needs. The position combines program management, interdisciplinary leadership, and hands-on modeling and experimentation in a defense context.

Pay / Benefits

• equity grants
• competitive benefits package
• health coverage
• recovery and well-being support
• family-friendly benefits
• professional development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Project manage the standing up of a tactical wargaming center in the UAE
• Develop and tailor scenarios to demonstrate capabilities based on customer needs
• Design, execute, and analyze tactical and mission-level wargames to assess autonomous systems
• Develop physics-based models and operational scenarios (red/blue force emphasis)
• Assess system-of-systems interactions, risks, dependencies, constraints, and mission impacts
• Lead wargamers, system admins, and operations staff to keep the center operational and train warfighters
• Collaborate with engineering and business development to showcase capabilities through data-driven analysis

Key requirements

• Active country-specific Secret security clearance
• 7+ years in Operations Research, Systems Analysis, systems engineering, mission engineering, or related technical-operational discipline
• 4+ years in project management and agile methodologies (SCRUM, KANBAN)
• Experience with tactical experiments and wargaming design, scenario development, data analytics, and trade-space analysis
• Ability to connect system performance and design choices to mission outcomes
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey results

• Leadership and team coordination
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strong analytical reasoning
• Modeling, simulation, and analysis (M&S)
• Wargaming design and execution
• Scenario development and data analytics

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