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About the Role

NODA is seeking a Field Operations Lead to grow and lead its Field Operations team, responsible for deploying autonomous orchestration systems in demonstrations, test campaigns, and field exercises. This player-coach role requires hands-on leadership from the field, focusing on removing blockers, developing people, and scaling a collaborative culture while ensuring speed and agility.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior on-site NODA representative and customer point of contact at multi-domain field exercises and demonstrations, directing setup/teardown, troubleshooting, and execution.
• Recruit, hire, and onboard Field Operations Specialists, and own the onboarding curriculum.
• Build the training program, including certification pipelines and cross-training, and coach team members along distinct career lanes.
• Own the flight-worthiness verification, integration timelines, and test review processes.
• Ensure a safe, professional shop and field environment.
• Lead operational coordination with Mission Operations and Engineering Operations, setting tasking horizons, demo lead times, and clear points of contact.
• Plan and adapt complex, multi-site deployment logistics as conditions change.
• Run lean operational systems, including reporting rhythms, task tracking, inventory, and delegated purchasing.
• Own deployment plans, checklists, logs, and after-action reports.
• Drive lessons learned and customer feedback into improved demo-readiness processes.
• Develop and deliver hands-on training to armed forces members.
• Gather observations on pain points and requirements from field operations.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizen (required); ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance; active Secret or higher strongly preferred.
• 5+ years of hands-on technical experience in field, lab, or operational environments.
• 5+ years leading technical teams.
• Demonstrated player-coach leadership: leading from the front, developing people individually, and earning trust through presence and listening.
• Experience scaling or building a small technical team, ideally in a startup, R&D, or test-and-evaluation environment.
• Proven planner with experience organizing complex, rapidly changing operations or logistics efforts.
• Self-aware and adaptable; effective under rapidly changing, complex, and ambiguous conditions.
• Willing and able to deploy to forward locations overseas, including austere environments.
• Comfortable working in both lab and outdoor field environments.
• Ability to lift 60 lbs and work in dynamic field conditions.

Skills

• Team building
• Vision, direction, and motivation
• Representing team needs credibly to customers, partner teams, and leadership
• Exceptional organizational and planning skills
• Bias for action
• Pushing authority down
• Composed decision-making in high-pressure, mission-critical settings
• Quality control
• Safety mindset
• Attention to detail
• Independent problem-solving
• Collaborative, ego-less approach
• FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate or ability to rapidly obtain
• Experience with UAS/robotic platforms, payloads, RF/communications, and multi-domain test events
• Experience establishing safety programs, test SOPs, or demo-readiness processes for hardware in the field
• Familiarity with lightweight project and inventory tooling (e.g., Kanban boards, Confluence, asset tracking)
• Right-sizing process to a small team's tempo
• Experience in defense applications of autonomous systems (e.g., DoD programs, test ranges, military exercises)
• Familiarity with military CONOPS and operations in contested or GPS/comms-denied environments

Location

• Austin, TX

Work Type

• Hybrid on-site
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 5+ years of hands-on technical experience
• 5+ years leading technical teams

Education Level

• FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate or ability to rapidly obtain

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Flexible time off
• Generous PTO policy
• Federal holidays
• Generous health, dental, and vision benefits
• Free OneMedical membership

About the Company

• NODA is a veteran-owned, venture-backed technology company transforming how unmanned systems collaborate in complex, mission-critical environments.
• Developing next-generation solutions for autonomous orchestration of heterogeneous unmanned systems across air, sea, land, and space.
• Vital applications in the defense, intelligence, and commercial sectors.
• Field Operations team plays a critical role in bringing technology to life through assembly, integration, deployment, and field testing.
• Meaningful technology that pushes the boundaries of autonomy.
• Team thrives on innovation, rapid iteration, and collaboration.

Equal Opportunity

• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
• All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, age, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.