Senior Analytics Engineer: Data Platform & Ontology Lead

Anduril Industries; Ashville (OH); On-site; USD 183,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a data analytics-focused engineer to design and implement ontologies and data models across critical domains. You will work with stakeholders to translate requirements into secure, scalable data models and drive the analytics platform roadmap.

You will collaborate with operations, product, and engineering to promote best practices and build robust data pipelines using modern tools like Palantir Foundry, SQLMesh, and Athena.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in analytics-focused roles (Analytics Engineer, Data Engineer, or Analyst/Consultant) with strong engineering background.
• Proven autonomy and ownership of processes.
• Experience with data stack tools: dbt, Redshift, Looker/Tableau, Palantir Foundry.
• Expert SQL; Python or another programming language.
• Ability to build world-class data models in a fast, startup environment.
• Strong partnerships and communication with non-technical stakeholders.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain active U.S. Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the building of Anduril’s ontology for a domain (Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, People, Sustainment).
• Collaborate with stakeholders to collect requirements and code secure, timely, accurate data models.
• Identify problems solvable with data and drive implementation across the organization.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership to improve organizational effectiveness.
• Lead the design and roadmap for the data platform.
• Partner with operations, product, and engineering to advocate best practices and build supporting infrastructure.
• Own ingest and egress frameworks for pipelines stitching data sources into valuable data products.
• Leverage Palantir Foundry for data-driven applications and analytics at scale.
• Use SQLMesh and AWS Athena for transformations and querying data.
• Utilize Apache Iceberg for schema evolution and time travel; Flyte for orchestration.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

Tools

dbt

Redshift

Looker/ Tableau

Palantir Foundry

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a data analytics-focused engineer to design and implement ontologies and data models across critical domains. You will work with stakeholders to translate requirements into secure, scalable data models and drive the analytics platform roadmap.

You will collaborate with operations, product, and engineering to promote best practices and build robust data pipelines using modern tools like Palantir Foundry, SQLMesh, and Athena.