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Operations Analyst

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.

About The Job

We are looking for an Operations Analyst to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa, CA. In this role, you will own the data that informs strategic and day-to-day decision making within Product Operations for the various business lines we support. You will also partner with teams throughout the Global Deployments division and individual business lines to develop workflow tools and dashboards focused on surfacing the right information to help make decisions that impact product performance and user workflows.

What You'll Do

• Build the software tooling that powers Sustainment operationsinternal foundry dashboards, AI tools, and pipelines that turn raw business-system data into decision-ready insights.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and analytical systems: Design data workflows to ingest, transform, and model data from diverse sources, ensuring high data quality and accessibility. Leverage this modeled data to build tools that drive business decisions, ranging from rapid, ad hoc analysis to scalable, production-grade dashboards
• Work deeply within our data and systems, developing a thorough understanding of how our systems across Sustainment functions (ERP, Jira, Salesforce, Foundry, etc.) interact, and translating that knowledge into reusable code, queries, and ontology models.
• Maintain and populate key data sources: Update code repositories and ontology objects, manage schema modifications, and keep Jira configurations aligned with ongoing product, system, and data changes
• Take full ownership of build projects, from initial requirements to deployed tools. You will tackle ambiguous projects end to end, from framing the problem to executing on a chosen solution.

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in data engineering, computer science or an analytics engineering role with hands-on building experience.
• Technical skills in the following: Foundry (Tableau/Power BI), dbt, Python, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience building data pipelines, ETL workflows, or internal tooling that other people rely on day-to-day.
• Experience in developing and deploying workflow tools, dashboards, and reporting structures that scale beyond a single user.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience as a self-starter, able to find and resolve issues on your own. Don't wait to be told what to do we want someone who we have to tell to slow down.
• Extreme ownership and strong aptitude for problem solving in unstructured situations analysis, developing a solution plan, and executing in code
• Strong communication skills to translate stakeholder asks into requirements, and requirements into shipped tools.

US Salary Range $112,000 $149,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

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