Mission Analytics Engineer

Anduril Industries•Irvine, CA

11d

About The Position

We build robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense (AD) Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide. We are looking for a well-rounded Analytics Engineer to support our Air Defense team. In this role, you will design and maintain data systems to ingest and transform structured, semistructured, and unstructured data, creating robust and efficient data models that deliver actionable insights. You will collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and implement secure, reliable analytics solutions, focusing on supporting a variety of data applications. You will work with engineering and field operations teams to better understand how our family of systems and capabilities performs in production (both in and out of classified environments). Additionally, you will support operational teams by building out data products to support operational workflows. Ensuring data quality and performing root cause analysis on complex systems will be key, as will deploying mission-critical analytics solutions with occasional travel to build, test, and deploy capabilities in 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.
Experience 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.
Ability to work with multiple programming languages and frameworks within our technology ecosystem.
Strong fundamentals in writing, debugging, and maintaining Python and SQL code.
Working knowledge of at least one other programming language (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Java, Scala, Haskell, OCaml, Julia, etc.).
Participation in developing data solutions in a cloud environment.
Practical exposure to data pipelines and orchestration concepts (e.g., Flyte, Airflow, Dagster, etc.).
Basic implementation experience with DevOps tools: containerization (e.g., Docker), container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Helm), CI/CD tooling (e.g., CircleCI, ArgoCD), and monitoring (e.g., DataDog, Grafana).
Hands-on experience with cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure) and knowledge of infrastructure-as-code concepts (e.g., Terraform).
Working knowledge of service-oriented architectures (e.g., REST APIs, gRPC, protocol buffers).
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 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

Healthcare Benefits US Roles: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
UK & AUS Roles: We cover full cost of medical insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
IE Roles: We offer an annual contribution toward your private health insurance for you and your dependents.
Additional Benefits Income Protection : Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees.
Generous time off : 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.
Family Planning & Parenting Support: 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.
Mental Health Resources: Access free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching. Additional work-life services, such as legal and financial support, are also available.
Professional Development: Annual reimbursement for professional development
Commuter Benefits: Company-funded commuter benefits based on your region.
Relocation Assistance: Available depending on role eligibility.
Retirement Savings Plan US Roles: Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax (mega backdoor Roth) options.
UK & IE Roles: Pension plan with employer match.
AUS Roles: Superannuation plan.