Lead Analytics Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Air Dominance and Strike Division is Anduril’s largest division and is fundamentally reshaping the way future peer to peer conflicts are fought by developing next generation collaborative combat aircraft, advanced effects, and the autonomy software that powers these weapons. The AD&S Operations team is a small but mighty team of business generalists that enables the division to scale through hyper-growth while breaking as few things as possible. 

ABOUT THE JOB

The Ops team is looking for our first Analytics hire to stand up our data capability so that we can better understand how our division functions and ultimately create the digital twin of our business and product operations.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own and maintain the architecture of AD&S’s data systems from financials to flight testing to product field performance, ensuring data can be ingested and transformed for the development of downstream data products and workflows
• Develop our test data infrastructure in collaboration with our Flight Test and Engineering teams to get off of our products and into the hands of engineers as rapidly as possible across a variety of system configurations and deployed environments
• Collaborate with our Production teams to build workflows, tools, and metrics that allow us to scale the production of our products from 1s to 1000s and enables rapid introduction of new products (NPI) into the manufacturing line
• Partner with our Engineering and Field Operations teams to architect and build a fleet management system that monitors the operational performance and reliability of our aircraft in the field, enabling us to achieve maximal uptime of our products
• Become a trusted partner to AD&S’s leadership by creating reusable entities that generalize how our division operates and building business workflows, dashboards, and metrics that drive better and faster decision-making
• Collaborate with Anduril’s corporate Analytics team to expand our ontologies and generalize data and workflow products across the entire company
• Build out a team to support the division as we scale across our business and field operations

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years of experience in an analytics focused role - Analytics Engineer, Data Engineer or Analyst / Consultant with a strong engineering background
• You’re deeply intellectually interested in the intersection of analytics and the real, physical, atoms-based, hardware world and are motivated by Anduril’s mission
• You’re skilled in leading through influence and diving into the details yourself but also have experience in building high-performing teams
• You’re energized by business impact & a self-starter: you’d rather build an imperfect solution quickly that is used by many people than a perfect solution that collects dust
• You thrive in cross-functional projects that have a heavy combination of technical requirements and user-focused workflows
• Expert with SQL and experience with Python or other programming languages
• Experience with data stack tools: dbt, Redshift, Looker/Tableau, Palantir Foundry
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

US Salary Range$174,000—$261,000 USD

 

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

• Platinum Healthcare Benefits: For U.S. roles, we offer c