Associate General Counsel, Legal Compliance

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.

Anduril’s Legal Team seeks an Associate General Counsel, Compliance with a focus on the full spectrum of cUAS, AI, and robotics regulatory issues. This includes everything from providing legal oversight to product development, giving legal guidance to existing business areas, to crafting legal and business strategies. The Legal Team partners closely with customers, outside counsel, and business partners across the organization to support business development and day-to-day legal operations.

Anduril is a fast-growing company at the early stages of growth. Consistent with this fast growth, members of Anduril’s Legal Team must be resourceful, creative, and eager to take ownership of complex matters. The AGC, Compliance role will require creativity and resourcefulness to navigate the US Government’s broad set of compliance laws and regulations, with a singular focus on helping Anduril deploy its path-making technology into operational settings for the United States and its allies. In addition to helping managing aviation, spectrum and export control compliance, you will work on all other aspects of Anduril’s business, from negotiating license and services agreements, facilitating the supply chain, advising on product development, to international expansion. Experience across all of these areas is not expected, but a willingness to learn and adapt is.

The AGC, Compliance will be expected to take responsibility for both significant, material projects, which will have a significant impact on the company’s business as well as larger process and strategic planning for the Compliance team. Anduril is growing from a tech startup to a manufacturing powerhouse and the AGC will play a critical role in scaling our operations. Our team is passionate about the law and policy of defense technology and you should have an independent interest in the key issues in this field. Anduril fosters a diverse, collaborative, culture with tremendous opportunities for ownership and professional growth.

ABOUT ANDURIL

Anduril is a venture-capital-backed defense startup headquartered in Orange County, California, focusing on applications of artificial intelligence, automation, and robotics, to defense and aerospace. Founded by executives from Oculus VR (acquired by Facebook in 2014), Palantir, General Atomics, SpaceX, Tesla, and Google, Anduril is funded by top-tier Silicon Valley VCs including Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and 8VC. Anduril’s executives are nationally recognized leaders on AI and technology policy, regularly featured in publications such as CNBC, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and CNN.

In only six years, Anduril has combined Silicon Valley's rapid-development ethos with deep expertise in government business to take path-making defense products from prototype to deployment in multiple DoD agencies and to the U.S.’s international partners. This is truly a unique opportunity to build the future of defense at a fast-paced tech startup.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Report to the GC to provide support and oversight over programmatic, helping to develop and implement compliance programs and procedures to ensure adherence to relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards.
• Ensure process scale with the company alongside the other domain-specific Compliance attorneys while helping the Compliance team keep the impact on engineering teams to an minimum and optimizing on speed to market.
• Drive customer growth by managing the regulatory requirements to develop, deploy and operate Anduril products. Use your expertise in compliance to help the Business Development, Proposal, and Engineering Teams efficiently capture new contracts, grow existing contracts, and ensure timely and uninterrupted performance. Assist in the strategy development for new business.
• Manage relationships with Government regulatory agencies. High-trust professional relationships with Government regulatory offices are critical to Anduril’s continued success, and you will be called upon to develop and foster these relationships throughout your tenure.
• Work on all legal aspects of Anduril’s business, from negotiating