Maritime Data Curation Intern

Anduril Industries; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 33,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries’ Maritime Division is offering an in-person internship in orange county, CA, focused on building vocabularies, metadata standards, and taxonomy for the maritime build chain. You will collaborate with data and manufacturing engineers to give factory data meaning and structure.

You’ll create asset hierarchies, metadata schemas, and catalog entries, ensuring consistency across thousands of signals while aligning with production workflows.

Qualifications

• Must be pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Library Science, Information Science, Knowledge Management, Archival Studies, Linguistics, or a related field.
• Must be returning to school at the end of the internship to continue academic studies for at least one quarter or semester.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities; U.S. clearance eligibility may be required depending on program.
• Ability to complete a 12 week in-person internship in one of our offices in summer 2027.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain controlled vocabularies for equipment, materials, processes, and locations across the build chain.
• Build asset hierarchies and naming conventions that structure plant-floor data into a consistent model.
• Write and apply metadata schemas for industrial data sources, documenting what each field means and how it should be used.
• Catalog data sources and maintain entries in the team's data catalog, including provenance and ownership.
• Audit existing tags and data models for inconsistency and gaps and propose corrections.
• Document standards and authoring guidelines so naming decisions stay consistent after you leave.
• Work with data and manufacturing engineers to check that the models match how work actually happens on the floor.
• Present your work to the team at the end of the session.

Skills

Attention to detail

Clear writing

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Library Science, Information Science, Knowledge Management, Archival Studies, Linguistics

Tools

Protégé

Dublin Core

SKOS

Job description

Anduril Industries’ Maritime Division is offering an in-person internship in orange county, CA, focused on building vocabularies, metadata standards, and taxonomy for the maritime build chain. You will collaborate with data and manufacturing engineers to give factory data meaning and structure.

You’ll create asset hierarchies, metadata schemas, and catalog entries, ensuring consistency across thousands of signals while aligning with production workflows.