Mission Analytics Engineer

Anduril Industries • Irvine, CA

15h

About The Position

Anduril is a defense technology company that aims to provide warfighters with advanced technologies to execute their missions in rapidly evolving operational environments. The Air Defense team specifically builds systems to detect, track, identify, deter, and defeat aerial threats. This role supports the Air Defense team by designing and maintaining data systems to ingest and transform data, creating data models for actionable insights, and collaborating with stakeholders to implement secure analytics solutions. The engineer will work with engineering and field operations to understand system performance in production, support operational teams with data products, ensure data quality, and deploy mission-critical analytics solutions, potentially involving travel to real-world scenarios.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in an analytics-focused or data-oriented role (e.g., data engineer, analytics engineer, data scientist, data analyst).
• Exceptional general problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, bringing to bear technical solutions to ambiguous and dynamic data problems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially when communicating with a technical audience; an affection for documentation.
• Ability to work with multiple programming languages and frameworks within our technology ecosystem.
• Participation in developing data solutions in a cloud environment.
• 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

• Exposure to systems programming languages such as Python, C/C++, Zig, Rust, etc.
• Basic knowledge of analytical workloads in on-premises or resource-constrained environments.
• Introduction to handling data in air-gapped and security-hardened networks.
• Exposure to specialized data formats relevant to robotics (e.g. MCAP, HDF5, etc.).
• Hands-on practice with modern data tools such as dbt, Palantir Foundry, Trino/Presto, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and/or in-memory databases (e.g., DuckDB, Polars).
• Introductory knowledge of the Nix ecosystem for dependency management and system configuration.
• Basic Linux skills.
• Interest in the challenges of developing and deploying autonomous systems in defense applications.
• Curiosity about the intersection of analytics and hardware systems, motivated by Anduril's mission.
• Prior exposure and significant interest in defense, aerospace, or intelligence domains.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing and maintaining data systems for high quality, low latency data ingestion from various 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 build product, operations, 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.
• 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

• Highly competitive equity grants
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed