Data Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Air Dominance & Strike : Air Dominance & Strike Engineering : Business Operations

This role is for a Data Engineer at Anduril Industries, a defense technology company. The primary focus is on building and scaling end-to-end operational software solutions that leverage data and AI to support product development and operations. The role involves developing test data infrastructure, fleet management systems, and tools for scaling production. While AI is mentioned as a component of their systems, the core function of this role is data engineering and operational software development, not direct AI/ML model building.

What you'd actually do

  1. Embed with various engineers to understand their workflows and locate their critical problems and bottlenecks
  2. Identify, structure and leverage various data systems that enables us to build tailored data-driven solutions
  3. Develop operational apps in a scrappy but effective way, work closely with users to iterate and support outcomes
  4. Build systems and infrastructure that allows applications to mature, roll out and scale in the field
  5. Work closely with Anduril’s corporate Analytics team to expand our ontologies and generalize our data and workflow applications across the entire company

Skills

Required

  • 2+ years work experience in technical operating roles, working on user-facing processes and applications
  • Engineering fundamentals - Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or similar background
  • Coding experience - used python, SQL, react, typescript or equivalent
  • Data system exposure: dbt, Redshift, Looker/Tableau, Palantir Foundry
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Nice to have

  • deeply intellectually interested in the intersection of analytics and the real, physical, atoms-based, hardware world
  • energized by business impact & a self-starter

What the JD emphasized

  • accelerate every step of the way
  • build and operate our products rapidly, at scale
  • scale production of our products from 1s to 1000s
  • roll out and scale in the field