Product Data Engineer

Anduril; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 113,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity grants

Job summary

Anduril is hiring a Product Data Engineer for its Configuration Management team in Costa Mesa, CA. The role requires managing a dynamic design and manufacturing environment. Responsibilities include supporting change management, continuous improvement in configuration integrity, and collaborating with engineering teams. Candidates should have 2-5 years of experience in similar roles and a BA/BS degree. The salary is between $113,000 and $149,000, along with a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in configuration analysis or a related field.
• Experience in high complexity production environments.
• Familiarity with configuration management principles (EIA649/C, MIL-HDBK-61B).
• Strong organizational and detail-oriented skills needed.

Responsibilities

• Work with teams to manage change requests for configuration items.
• Prepare analyses to support change requests and maintain integrity.
• Support implementation of change notices across various domains.
• Conduct audits of product configuration records.

Skills

Configuration analysis

High complexity production experience

Configuration management principles

Data management toolsets

Attention to detail

Strong communication skills

Education

BA/BS degree

Tools

Teamcenter

Confluence

JIRA

SQL

Job description

Overview

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 job

Anduril is seeking a Product Data Engineer to join our Configuration Management team. As a Product Data Engineer you will work closely with the leaders of critical Anduril programs to manage a highly dynamic and fast-paced design, engineering, and manufacturing environment. The Product Data Engineer will have a massive impact on capturing and defining the baseline for a program’s requirements, design, testing, manufacturing, and sustainment data structures (requirements baseline, EBOM, MBOM, SOM, BOP).

Responsibilities

• Be a partner to Product and Program teams by working with Anduril system, design, and manufacturing engineers to generate, populate and submit configuration item change requests.
• Prepare critical analyses to support change requests while maintaining configuration integrity and traceability (item dependency analyses, test analyses, effectivity plans, inventory disposition analyses etc.).
• Support the execution and implementation of change notices across system engineering, design engineering, manufacturing engineering, and supply chain domains.
• Identify and execute continuous improvement opportunities by building data-driven perspectives of the full product configuration landscape.
• Be the leader of critical configuration management activities and forums by supporting configuration managers in managing critical program technical forums (Test Review Board, Change Control Board, etc.).
• Work with program teams to prepare for critical technical forums including preparing of business cases, test data, effectivity plans, inventory disposition plans, etc.
• Document and distribute conclusions and decisions emerging from configuration management forums.
• Conduct periodic product configuration record audits by supporting configuration management reviews and audits, including FCA/PCA and providing direction before, during and after the events.
• Reconcile released bills of materials against baseline bills of materials by confirming all variances have signed-off change notices.
• Reconcile product as-built-records against released bills of materials by confirming all variances have quality deviations.
• Identify, analyze and resolve non-conformances; identify root causes of failure modes.
• Be an expert resource for Engineering Release and Change Management processes and standards by using Teamcenter software to manage engineering changes, including part revisions, EBOM/MBOM/SBOM updates, documentation modifications, and associated workflows.
• Provide guidance and support to engineering teams in configuring the engineering, manufacturing, and service bills of materials (EBOM, MBOM, SBOM).
• Support configuration managers and engineers in defining and maintaining configurable product data sets (e.g., 150% BOMs, product variant dictionaries and schema).
• Be a Teamcenter super-user and train product team users on workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams to set requirements and identify improvement opportunities in existing ways of working by creating tools or enhancing workflows.
• Build an end-to-end digital thread that maintains an accurate product definition, system by system, from the definition of requirements to the as maintained record.
• Identify and pilot opportunities to leverage Anduril’s AI capabilities tools to unlock increased speed, accuracy, and efficiency within configuration management activities.

Required qualifications

• 2-5 years of configuration analysis or equivalent experience.
• 2-5 years of experience in high complexity and high-rate production environments (aerospace, automotive, security systems, medical devices, nuclear).
• Familiar with configuration management principles and practices (EIA649/C, MIL-HDBK-61B).
• Experience with product lifecycle management (PLM) and/or data management toolsets for configuration management of complex products.
• High attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to synthesize complex quantitative data into clear decision statements.
• BA/BS degree.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to an inclusive culture.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Preferred qualifications

• Proven experience in aerospace industry.
• Proficient in technical writing of processes and procedures.
• Experience with Teamcenter, Teamcenter Requirements, Teamcenter Quality, Confluence & JIRA.
• Database skills with SQL queries, etc.
• Certification in CM2 or equivalent configuration management certification.

Salary and benefits

US Salary Range: 113,000 — 149,000 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 work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers as part of Anduril's total compensation package. Anduril offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees.

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive benefits package ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

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