Managing Director, Advanced Infrared SolutionsPosted today$252K

Anduril Industries
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The opportunity

Advanced Infrared Solutions (AIRS), formerly American Infrared Solutions, was acquired by Anduril Industries in 2025 and now operates as part of the Imaging Business Line. For more than 10 years, AIRS has designed and built world-class, high-performance cooled infrared cameras…

What you'll do

  • Own AIRS revenue (primary accountability): Carry the AIRS revenue target and P&L, ensuring units are delivered on time. Develop the external merchant-supply strategy and build a robust business development and growth pipeline process in collaboration with the AIRS Director of Business Development. Set commercial pricing strategy, expand existing accounts, and pursue new customers and markets across defense, space, and other commercial — treating external growth as a core success metric.

  • Define the IDCA product roadmap: Identify market and customer needs and shape the forward product strategy

  • Direct internal R&D strategy: Prioritize and fund R&D investments that differentiate AIRS's cooled IR and IDCA products and align development with where the market is heading.

  • Serve as the senior on-site leader accountable for safe, high-quality,: on-time delivery of IDCAs and cooled IR products. Execute against production output, throughput, and quality and delivery standards that are set and directed at the Division level, under the direction of the Imaging Head and Deputy Head of Production, while providing on-the-ground inputs to help shape those targets.

  • Scale manufacturing capacity to grow external output in line with Business: Line and Divisional mandates, and own supply chain resilience for critical materials

  • Drive strategy and oversight of day-to-day business operations for AIRS ,: executing against the mandates and goals set and directed by the Division across financial tracking, staffing/hiring, corporate governance, and facilities, and providing inputs to help shape them — working with cross-functional partners across each domain. Specific examples include: Managing the financial performance of AIRS against the budget, margin, and financial targets set and directed by the Division and FP&A — executing to those mandates while providing inputs to help shape them, tracking financial health of the budget against goals, driving actions to keep operating expenses within budget, and assessing financial data to build strategies that drive toward the Division’s margin targets

What they're looking for

  • Prior experience as a general manager, managing director, or site/operations leader with P&L responsibility
  • Experience scaling manufacturing or production operations in a defense or hardware environment
  • Familiarity with defense-industry compliance (DFARS, ITAR/export control) and supply chain management
  • Experience with post-acquisition integration or standing up and scaling a newly acquired business