The Mission Analytics Engineer will join Anduril Industries' Air Defense team in Irvine, CA onsite to design and maintain data systems for ingestion and transformation, delivering production analytics in network-isolated and classified environments. This role focuses on building data products to support operational workflows and enabling self-serve analytics.
Responsibilities
- Assist in building and maintaining data systems that enable high-quality, low-latency data ingestion from diverse source systems and subsequent transformation for downstream data products and operational workflows.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and develop secure, timely, accurate, trusted, and extensible data models.
- Establish yourself as a trusted partner to Anduril's leadership by creating reusable data entities that generalize division-wide operations and by delivering product, operations, and business workflows, dashboards, and metrics that improve decision making.
- Design and deploy analytics solutions for evolving needs in network-isolated and classified environments.
- Empower users to leverage the data architecture for self-service through enablement and knowledge transfer, while improving the developer and end-user experience.
Requirements
- Three or more years of experience in an analytics-focused or data-oriented role, such as data engineer, analytics engineer, data scientist, or data analyst.
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities applied to complex and evolving data challenges.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly with technical audiences, and a demonstrated appreciation for documentation.
- Proficiency with multiple programming languages and frameworks used within the current technology stack.
- Experience building 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 Secret Clearance or higher.
Technologies
- Lattice OS
- Python
- C/C++, Zig, Rust
- dbt
- Palantir Foundry
- Trino/Presto
- Apache Spark
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Flink
- DuckDB
- Polars
- Nix
- Linux
- MCAP
- HDF5
Compensation
Salary range is USD 113,000 to 149,000 per year.
Benefits
Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package that is available at little to no cost to employees, supporting health, recovery, and future needs.
Company Description
Anduril is a defense technology company that brings Silicon Valley talent and funding to the defense sector. It provides advanced technologies to warfighters to support mission execution in rapidly evolving operational environments. The company combines expertise in artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensor fusion, optics, and robotics to develop software and hardware solutions that enhance national security capabilities.
About the Team
The Air Defense team builds robotic systems that detect, track, and defeat aerial threats. In a context where air superiority is not guaranteed, this team delivers mission-critical capabilities, enabling rapid kill-chain closure against a broad range of unmanned aircraft threats through a network of sensors and effectors. Collaboration spans product, engineering, business development, and operations to deliver impactful outcomes.
About the Job
As a data analytics engineer on the Air Defense team, you will design and maintain data pipelines for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, building robust data models that yield actionable insights. You will collaborate with engineering and field operations to understand production performance across systems and capabilities, including in classified environments, and will develop data products to support operational workflows. Ensuring data quality and conducting root cause analysis on complex systems, you will deploy mission-critical analytics solutions and, when needed, travel to prototype, test, and deploy capabilities in the field.
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