Analytics Engineer, Hardware Test

Anduril; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a data engineer to own end-to-end data workstreams across ingestion, transforms, and dashboards for the Hardware Test Data Operations team. You'll build Foundry pipelines, data models, and small services in Python or Go, collaborating with product, software, and infrastructure teams to deliver production-ready data products.

This role emphasizes autonomy, collaboration, and the ability to shape how the team collects and leverages data to boost velocity while

Qualifications

• 3+ years of data engineering, platform engineering, or equivalent experience owning data systems end-to-end.
• Strong Python and SQL; experience with DataFrame-based transforms (Pandas, PySpark, Polars, or similar)
• Experience owning a data pipeline or integration end-to-end from ingestion through to a downstream consumer (dashboard, service, or model)
• Hands-on experience integrating with REST APIs, webhooks, or third-party data sources
• Experience building internal-facing dashboards or analytics products — owning the full stack from data to UI
• Comfortable working on a small team (1-3 people) where scope is fluid and you’re often the only person on your piece of work
• Think like a data product owner — when building a pipeline or model, you can independently reason about downstream questions, not just data movement
• Write clear design docs and RFCs that align stakeholders, not just serve as documentation after the fact
• Experience with ontology modeling or data modeling for heterogeneous sources
• U.S. Persons status is required as this position needs to access export-controlled data

Responsibilities

• Own data workstreams end-to-end from ingestion to dashboards and tools that consume them.
• Build and maintain Foundry pipelines, data models, and data quality checks.
• Build internal-facing dashboards and analytics products serving flight test engineers, middle management and leadership.
• Write small production services (Python or Go) when integrations demand it.
• Partner with product-line Hardware Test leads, software and infrastructure teams to align on data contracts and ingestion patterns.
• Write clear design docs and RFCs that align stakeholders before code ships

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

REST APIs

Data modeling

Ontology modeling

Foundry

Data quality checks

Dashboards

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Workshop

Streamlit

Git

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.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril’s Hardware Test Operations team is focused on organizing and reporting on all of Anduril’s products through their respective development. The Hardware Test Data Operations team builds the data infrastructure and analytical tools that power Anduril's Hardware Test function — turning telemetry, test records, and incident data into consistent, automated views of how our systems are performing across the fleet. The work spans the full data pipeline: how data is created on the platform, how it's collected and egressed to the cloud, how it's modeled, and how it reaches the engineers, managers, and leaders who act on it.

We're a new team within the Hardware Test organization, and we're looking for someone willing to get their hands dirty and make high‑impact, foundational changes to the way we collect, analyze, and leverage our data — work that will directly increase the velocity of the organization. Ideally you are passionate about the next generation of defense technology and are looking to become a technical expert in all of Anduril’s products.

ABOUT THE JOB

You’ll take defined work‑streams end-to-end — ingestion pipelines, data models, dashboards, and the small services that tie them together — so the team can run more of them in parallel. You’ll partner closely with product‑line Hardware Test teams, software and infra teams, and corporate analytics to ship real, production‑grade data products that replace and enhance the tools we rely on today.

Executional autonomy is a foundational pillar of this team. You’ll be expected to drive the design, the partnerships, and the delivery. We’re looking to encourage you to be a collaborator that feels comfortable proposing alternative solutions and even helping give shape to how the team executes over time.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own data workstreams end-to-end from ingestion of source data through Foundry transforms and ontology modeling to the dashboards and tools that consume them
• Build and maintain Foundry pipelines, data models, and data quality checks
• Build internal-facing dashboards and analytics products that serve flight test engineers, middle management, and leadership
• Write small production services (Python or Go) when integrations demand it — webhooks, bridges, daemons — and partner with the broader SWE organization when the work belongs with them
• Partner directly with product‑line Hardware Test leads, software engineering teams, and infrastructure teams to align on data contracts, ingestion patterns, and shared priorities
• Write clear design docs and RFCs that align stakeholders around technical decisions before code ships

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of data engineering, platform engineering, or equivalent experience owning data systems end-to-end
• Strong Python and SQL; experience with DataFrame‑based transforms (Pandas, PySpark, Polars, or similar)
• Experience owning a data pipeline or integration end-to-end from ingestion through to a downstream consumer (dashboard, service, or model)
• Hands‑on experience integrating with REST APIs, webhooks, or third‑party data sources
• Experience building internal-facing dashboards or analytics products — owning the full stack from data to UI
• Comfortable working on a small team (1-3 people) where scope is fluid and you’re often the only person on your piece of work
• Think like a data product owner — when building a pipeline or model, you can independently reason about what questions it needs to answer downstream, not just what data to move
• Write clear design docs and technical RFCs that align stakeholders, not just serve as documentation after the fact
• Experience with ontology modeling or data modeling for heterogeneous sources
• U.S. Persons status is required as this position needs to access export‑controlled data

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with Palantir Foundry — transforms, ontology, Workshop, Streamlit
• Experience in robotics, aerospace, defense, or hardware‑adjacent data environments
• Comfortable reading or contributing to git repos in languages other than Python (e.g. Go, Nix, Terraform, etc.)
• Experience using agentic coding tools as part of your daily workflow
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance

US Salary Range: $146,000 – $194,000 USD

The 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.