Senior Analytics Engineer
Anduril· Business Operations : Business Operations : Analytics
Costa Mesa, CA$166k - $220kfull-timePosted 10mo ago
About the role
Senior Analytics Engineer role at Anduril Industries focusing on building and stewarding data models, ontologies, and data platforms to enable self-serve analytics and data-driven decision making across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead the building of Anduril’s ontology for a specific domain such as Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, People, and Sustainment
- Collaborate with stakeholders, collecting requirements, and writing the code that results in Secure, Timely, Accurate, Trusted, and Extensible Data Models
- Seek out problems that can be solved with data and proactively work with the organization to make it a reality
- Become a trusted resource for Anduril leadership in helping them run their organizations more effectively
- Lead the design and roadmap for our data platform
- Partner with operations, product, and engineering to advocate best practices and build supporting systems and infrastructure for the various data needs
- Own the ingest and egress frameworks for data pipelines that stitch together various data sources in order to produce valuable data products that drive the business
- Palantir Foundry is our central hub for data driven applications, visualizations and large scale data analysis across the Anduril org. We manage a large user base and provide true data self service at scale.
- We use SQLMesh for data transformations, giving our engineers the ability to work with SQL while enjoying software engineering best practices like version control, testing, and CI/CD for data pipelines.
- For querying data, we utilize Athena, an aws serverless solution that allows our team to run analytics directly on our data lake without managing infrastructure.
- We've implemented Apache Iceberg as our table format, providing advanced data management capabilities like schema evolution and time travel queries.
- We use Flyte for orchestration. It is a highly scalable, kubernetes native modern orchestration platform similar to Airflow or Dagster.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in an analytics focused role - Analytics Engineer, Data Engineer or Analyst / Consultant with a strong engineering background
- Demonstrated experience with autonomy and process ownership
- Experience with data stack tools: dbt, Redshift, Looker/Tableau, Palantir Foundry
- Expert with SQL and experience with Python or other programming languages
- Ability to build world-class data models in a fast, start-up environment
- Demonstrated aptitude for strategic partnerships and communication with non-technical Stakeholders
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Skills
Required:Ontology designData modelingSQLPython or other programming languageStakeholder management
Benefits
- comprehensive, competitive benefits package (health, recovery, and other protections) available at little to no cost to employees
- top-tier benefits for full-time employees
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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