Winter 2027 Business Operations Engineer Co-op

Anduril • Costa Mesa, OH

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Anduril’s Air Dominance and Strike Division develops Collaborative Combat Aircraft, missiles, and Mission Autonomy software. The AD&S Operations team helps the division scale by improving supply-chain resilience, accelerating production, supporting design and quality iteration, and maximizing operational effectiveness in the field. The team is building an end-to-end ecosystem of operational software solutions that uses data and AI to build and operate products rapidly and at scale.

The Business Operations Engineer Co-op will embed with engineers to understand workflows and identify problems and bottlenecks. The role will structure and leverage data systems to create tailored, data-driven solutions; develop operational applications with users and iterate on them; build systems and infrastructure to mature, deploy, and scale applications; and collaborate with the corporate Analytics team to expand and generalize data and workflow applications across the company. The co-op is a 16–24-week in-person position in Costa Mesa, California, or Ashville, Ohio, in Winter 2027.

Requirements

• Be pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
• Be returning to school at the end of the internship to continue academic studies for at least one quarter or semester.
• Be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities; U.S. clearance eligibility may be required depending on the program.
• Be able to complete a 16–24-week in-person co-op in Costa Mesa, California, or Ashville, Ohio, in Winter 2027.

Nice To Haves

• Background in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or a similar field.
• Strong interest in the intersection of analytics and the physical hardware world, and motivation by Anduril’s mission.
• Self-starter energized by business impact who prefers quickly building an imperfect solution that is widely used over a perfect solution that goes unused.
• Evidence of owning a project end-to-end, from ambiguity through delivery of a scalable outcome.
• Coding experience with Python, SQL, React, TypeScript, or equivalent.
• Exposure to data systems such as dbt, Redshift, Looker/Tableau, Databricks, or Palantir Foundry.

Responsibilities

• Embed with engineers to understand workflows and identify critical problems and bottlenecks.
• Identify, structure, and leverage data systems to build tailored data-driven solutions.
• Develop operational applications, work closely with users to iterate, and support outcomes.
• Build systems and infrastructure that allow applications to mature, roll out, and scale in the field.
• Work with the corporate Analytics team to expand ontologies and generalize data and workflow applications across the company.

Benefits

• The posting describes Anduril’s benefits package as comprehensive and competitive, available at little to no cost to employees, and says it supports health and recovery. The stated top-tier benefits are for full-time employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern