Strategy & Operations, Production

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Manufacturing : Manufacturing

This role is in Strategy & Operations for the Production organization at Anduril, a defense technology company. The role focuses on strategic problems, operational improvements, and managing projects at the intersection of hardware and software systems. It involves working with business systems, data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver hardware on time, with quality, and at cost. The company utilizes an AI-powered operating system (Lattice OS) and incorporates AI, computer vision, and sensor fusion into its defense systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work on strategic problems, providing structure to ambiguity and helping shepherd cross-functional groups of stakeholders towards decisions on strategic issues - coupling first principles thinking and the ability to rapidly and creatively conduct research (internally and externally) to fully and exhaustively detail the implications and tradeoffs of various decisions without losing sight of the simple “so what”
  2. Own operational projects end-to-end, from Definition, Solution, to Implementation. You will be handed ambiguous, messy problems with little prescription on how to solve them. If this does not _excite_ you, this is not the role for you.
  3. Work on operational problems involving the intersection of hardware and software systems. From inventory management systems, to asset-tracking in the field, to manufacturing systems capturing data on quality-issues on the production floor. Anduril is hardware business, and tracking hardware is messy. We need our systems, tools, and, processes to be up to the task.
  4. Work deeply within data and systems, becoming intimately familiar with how our business systems (ERP, MRP, HRIS, etc.) function, and how to leverage data from them to create insights and analytics (leveraging tools like Excel, Palantir Foundry, etc.), equipping functional teams with these insights and tools to measure and improve their processes
  5. Execute scrappy analyses on short-timelines to get answers quickly, while also owning more scalable solutions that will make Anduril successful in the long term

Skills

Required

  • 2-5+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, internal operations, a business analyst role
  • Self-driven and relentlessly proactive
  • Proactively step into the gap to offer solutions
  • Bring forward solutions and ideas, and then receptively take feedback
  • Build clear frameworks to structure problems
  • Acknowledge weaknesses and take feedback and growth seriously
  • Translate operational problems into data problems, and execute on them
  • Strong analytical aptitude
  • Intuitively think about problems in terms of numbers and data-models
  • Quickly execute analyses in Excel or other tools
  • Comfortable communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work
  • U.S. Person status

Nice to have

  • management consulting
  • investment banking
  • internal operations
  • business analyst role
  • Excel
  • Palantir Foundry

What the JD emphasized

  • ambiguous, messy problems
  • hardware startups are messy
  • no one minds if you leave early one day to go to an appointment or run an errand, but you also don’t mind responding to Slacks in the evening while you’re watching Netflix.