Analytics Engineer

Anduril Industries • Irvine, CA

67d • $146,000 - $194,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in an analytics-focused or data-oriented role (e.g., data engineer, analytics engineer, data scientist, backend software engineer).
• Exceptional general problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, bringing to bear technical solutions to ambiguous and dynamic data problems.
• Proficiency designing scalable and adaptable logical and physical data models that facilitate both future product evolution and analytical requirements.
• Strong skills in performing data-driven root cause analysis on complex systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially when communicating with a technical audience; an affection for documentation.
• Ability to drive consensus across internal and external stakeholders, with demonstrated experience leading through influence.
• Comfortable navigating a polyglot ecosystem and a proven ability to quickly understand established code bases and operate at different levels of abstraction.
• Procedural fluency in writing, debugging, profiling, testing, and maintaining performant Python and SQL code.
• Experience writing another language (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Java, Scala, Haskell, OCaml, Julia, etc.).
• Proficiency in building end-to-end, scalable data solutions (including the steps for beyond implementation such as enablement, support, integrations, etc.) in a cloud setting.
• Experience writing pipelines with common orchestration tooling (e.g., Flyte, Airflow, Dagster, etc.).
• Experience with DevOps and software deployment: containerization & container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, etc.), GitOps & CI/CD tooling (e.g., CircleCI, ArgoCD, etc.), observability/monitoring (e.g., DataDog, Grafana, etc.).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform), core- and data-related cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure).
• Experience writing and working with microservices architectures (e.g., gRPC + protocol buffers).
• Current US Person status (U.S. citizen or permanent resident) with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Secret Clearance or higher.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to comprehend and appropriately modify software written in a systems or lower-level language such as C/C++, Zig, Rust, etc.
• Experience with setting up and managing infrastructure to support analytical workloads on-premises or in resource-constrained environments.
• Experience delivering and maintaining systems that securely egress data from air-gapped and security-hardened networks.
• Experience working with data formats (e.g. MCAP, HDF5, etc.) relatively common to robotics.
• Experience with dbt, Palantir Foundry, Trino/Presto, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and/or in-memory databases (e.g., DuckDB, Polars).
• Experience with the Nix (dependency management & system configuration) ecosystem.
• Strong Linux fundamentals.
• Exposure to the technical, programmatic, and operational challenges of developing and deploying autonomous weapon systems across command echelons.
• Deep intellectual interest in the intersection of analytics and the physical hardware world, motivated by Anduril’s mission.
• Prior defense, aerospace, or intelligence domain experience.

Responsibilities

• Help lead the development and maintenance of data systems architecture that enable high quality, low latency data ingestion across many different source systems and transformation for downstream data products and operational workflows.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to collect requirements and write code for secure, timely, accurate, trusted, and extensible data models.
• Become a trusted partner to AD’s leadership by creating reusable entities that generalize how our division operates and building both deployment- and business-related workflows, dashboards, and metrics that drive better and faster decision-making.
• Develop and deliver analytics solutions for evolving problems in network-isolated and classified environments.
• Help empower users to leverage the aforementioned data architecture to self-serve through enablement & knowledge-transfer, as well as improving the developer/end-user experience.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
• Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees.
• Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December.
• Caregiver & Wellness Leave is available to care for family members, bond with a new baby, or address your own medical needs.
• Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carriers, along with resources to support you and your partner from planning to parenting.
• Access free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching.
• Annual reimbursement for professional development.
• Company-funded commuter benefits based on your region.
• Relocation Assistance available depending on role eligibility.
• Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax (mega backdoor Roth) options.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees