Division Operations Senior Associate, Undersea Dominance

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries, a defence technology leader, seeks a Division Operations Senior Associate for its Maritime Division in Sydney. You will support internal business lines and the entire division, owning outcomes and partnering with U.S. teams across time zones.

The role focuses on building scalable processes, dashboards, and the operating rhythm for rapid growth in a high-stakes environment. You will drive cross-functional programs, manage the planning cycle, and ensure smooth onboarding and

Qualifications

• 3+ years in consulting, operations, finance, or business analysis in commercial/government/defence.
• Demonstrated operational ownership of a process, tool, or system used day-to-day.
• Able to translate operational problems into data solutions and drive execution.
• Strong communication with senior leaders and engineers; cross-team alignment.
• Australian citizen able to obtain and maintain Australian Government security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic initiatives to scale operations across the portfolio.
• Connect design, development and execution through new process implementation.
• Build models, trackers, and dashboards for headcount, financials, facilities.
• Coordinate executive meetings, set agendas and ensure follow-through.
• Support onboarding and division-wide events to ramp new hires rapidly.
• Help build performance against goals, financial plans, and headcount plans.
• Establish operating model and cadence for rapid, cross-division execution.

Skills

3+ years experience

defence industry interest

built something operational

cross-functional problem solving

clear structured communicator

stakeholder management

AI tools proficiency

ownership mindset

translate ops problems to data

advanced Excel

fast learner

hands-on vs strategic

Australian citizen with clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in business/engineering/law

Tools

SQL

Tableau

Power BI

Palantir Foundry

Excel

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

Maritime Division Operations Senior Associate

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril's Maritime Division, one of Anduril's fastest growing divisions, has assembled a diverse team of experts in software, robotics, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and data analysis to create software and hardware solutions that radically evolve the capabilities of our customers. We are fielding the next generation of autonomous systems to tackle the extremely challenging industry demands of maritime operations. Anduril has brought to market a unique, ultra-long-range, full-ocean-depth underwater vessel platform and a completely refreshed maritime vehicle and flexible manufacturing architecture that scales from "small" to "extra-large" vehicle sizes. Today, Anduril is executing on billion-dollar contracts while simultaneously performing Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) AUV operations.

We are seeking to sustain our early successes with deep investment in an expanded product portfolio. These products, including Dive-XL, Dive-LD, Copperhead, Seabed Sentry, and other unannounced systems, will deliver a coherent system-of-systems, enabling the end-to-end conduct of a variety of autonomous missions in the maritime domain. If you are passionate about solving problems that have real impact and working on systems that directly contribute to achieving national strategic priorities for Australia and its allies, we want you to join Anduril's Maritime Division and help us build the future of defence capability.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a Division Operations Senior Associate to join our rapidly growing Maritime Division Operations team in Sydney, Australia. In this role, you will be responsible for supporting our internal business lines as well as the entire division. The Maritime Division Operations team is a small but mighty team of talented business generalists who enable the division to scale through hyper-growth while breaking as few things as possible.

We're looking for someone to help us build out the business infrastructure required to grow this into Anduril's largest division over the next few years. Our goal is to fundamentally reshape the way future peer to peer conflicts are fought by developing next generation undersea and surface capabilities, such as our XL-AUV, Copperhead, and Seabed Sentry platforms.

This is an operator role, not an advisory one. You won't be writing recommendations for someone else to execute. You'll own the outcome. You'll work closely with division leadership in Sydney and partner across time zones with teams in the U.S., so you'll need to be comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead various strategic initiatives and special projects, as directed by Directors and the Chief of Staff, to establish scalable operations across the portfolio, ranging from strategic and international finance, production and supply chain, facilities and real estate, security, etc
• Act as the connective tissue between efforts related to the design, development, and implementation of new processes, strategy, and execution plans
• Build the models, trackers, and dashboards the division runs on (headcount, financial, facilities, and production) and keep them alive, not just stand them up
• Coordinate and prepare for executive leadership meetings, including setting agendas, tracking action items, and ensuring follow-through
• Support internal team operations like new employee onboarding, all hands, internal business reviews, and other division-wide events so that we rapidly ramp new employees and maintain a culture of "doing things differently"
• Support our corporate planning cycle by helping to build out and monitor performance against goals, financial plans, and headcount plans so we can hit our aggressive growth targets
• Establish the operating model and battle rhythm for a rapidly growing team with an emphasis on cross-division coordination and repeatable execution patterns

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• You have 3+ years of experience in consulting, operations, finance, or general business analysis in a commercial, government, or defence industry environment
• You can clearly articulate why defence, and why Anduril. You have a genuine conviction in the mission, not just interest in the technology
• You have personally built something operational (a process, tool, or system) that other people used day-to-day. Not advised on it. Built it.
• You love solving complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems in a people-centric way, and can point to a time you drove alignment across teams with competing priorities without direct authority
• You're a clear, structured communicator, in writing and in the room, with senior leaders and engineers alike
• You manage stakeholders at every level, from engineers and technicians on the floor to program managers, functional leads, Directors, and executives, plus partner teams in the U.S. You build trust, tailor your message to the audience, manage up, push back when needed, and keep people aligned when you aren't in the room
• You're highly competent with AI tools (e. g. Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) and use them every day to analyse data, draft, research, and build. You know their limits, check the output, and can show us real examples where AI made your work faster or better
• You're both high ownership and low ego, approaching everything with strong outcome orientation and high humility
• You're excited to spend time translating operational problems into data problems, and to then going and executing on them
• Strong hands‑on Excel skills (modelling, data manipulation, pivot tables). Be ready to show us what you've built
• You're discerning and an incredibly fast learner. When something doesn't check every box, you figure it out
• You're tactical and don't only sit at a 30,000 foot level
• Must be an Australian citizen and able to obtain and maintain an Australian Government security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree or higher in business, engineering, law, or a related field
• Background in a high-growth tech company, or in corporate finance, accounting, or strategy
• Exposure to supply chain, production, or workforce planning problems
• Experience with data and analytics tooling including Excel and beyond (e. g. SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Palantir Foundry)
• Hands‑on experience building AI-enabled tools or automations (e. g. custom GPTs or Claude projects, agents, scripts, Power Automate, or LLM APIs) and an understanding of how to use them safely in a security‑conscious environment

salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.