Growth Strategy & Real Estate Analytics Associate

Telemetry Today LLC; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking a Growth Strategy Associate to forecast space and headcount needs for R&D labs, manufacturing hubs, and offices. You will build models turning program plans into long-range demand and supply projections, while tracking utilization and preparing analyses for leadership.

You will collaborate with Finance, Corporate Operations, and Business Divisions, applying data science to strategic real estate planning and leveraging LLMs for automation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, or Finance. Bachelor's degree in a non-quantitative field is acceptable, so long as you can demonstrate technical ability.
• 2–4 years of experience in data science, analytics, consulting, FP&A, capacity planning, or real estate.
• Regular use of LLMs in your work, including building with an API, agent framework, or automated workflow.
• Interest in data science shown 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.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the models behind our quarterly portfolio forecast. This includes pulling in headcount and program plans from Finance, Corporate Operations, and the business divisions, reconciling them where they conflict, and producing a 5-10 year outlook by division, workforce type, and region.
• Track plan vs. actual from one forecast version to the next and explain the changes.
• Forecast office, R&D, and production space demand against current and committed supply, and size the 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 dig into sites that look off.
• Work with Talent and People teams on hiring velocity, workforce mix, and in-office patterns, and use that work to inform location strategy and site timing.
• Extend our 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 help the rest of the team use them.
• Prepare slides and memos for leadership reviews, and present your own work to division leaders.

Skills

Palantir Foundry

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt

Forecasting methods

Excel

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Tools

Git

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking a Growth Strategy Associate to forecast space and headcount needs for R&D labs, manufacturing hubs, and offices. You will build models turning program plans into long-range demand and supply projections, while tracking utilization and preparing analyses for leadership.

You will collaborate with Finance, Corporate Operations, and Business Divisions, applying data science to strategic real estate planning and leveraging LLMs for automation