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Strategic Real Estate, Growth Strategy Associate

Anduril· Core Operations : Real Estate & Facilities : Strategic Real Estate
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Costa Mesa, CA$120k - $175kfull-timePosted 6d ago

About the role

Anduril's Growth Strategy Associate will forecast space needs and build data tools to support strategic real estate planning, turning headcount and program plans into demand and supply forecasts across 5–10 years.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain the models behind our quarterly portfolio forecast, pulling in headcount and program plans from Finance, Corporate Operations, and business divisions, reconciling conflicts, and producing a 5–10 year outlook by division, workforce type, and region.
  • Track plan vs. actual from forecast versions and explain changes.
  • Forecast office, R&D, and production space demand against current and committed supply, and size gaps by market and year.
  • Model scenarios such as program wins and losses, M&A, and relocations.
  • Build and maintain utilization metrics (SF per head, seat ratios, cost per seat, production space relative to output) and investigate anomalies.
  • Collaborate with Talent and People teams on hiring velocity, workforce mix, and in-office patterns to inform location strategy and site timing.
  • Extend planning data pipeline in Palantir Foundry using Python and SQL, with version-controlled datasets and automated validation.
  • Build LLM-based tools and agents to automate data extraction, reconciliation, analysis, and slide production, and enable team usage.
  • Prepare slides and memos for leadership reviews and present work to division leaders.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, or Finance; non-quantitative degree acceptable with demonstrated technical ability.
  • 2–4 years of experience in data science, analytics, consulting, FP&A, capacity planning, or real estate.
  • Regular use of LLMs in work, including building with an API, agent framework, or automated workflow.
  • Demonstrated interest in data science through work or personal projects.
  • Clear written and verbal communication with non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to travel up to 10%.
  • U.S. citizenship required; eligibility for security clearance preferred.

Skills

Required:Data modelingPythonSQLLLM toolingCommunication
Nice to have:Palantir Foundry

Benefits

  • comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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