Talent Analytics Engineer — TA Data & Dashboards

Neura Market; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Data Analyst, Talent Acquisition to join the rapidly growing Talent Operations team. You will transform recruiting and people data into models, metrics, and self-service tools used by leadership, sourcers, and recruiters, partnering with the People Data team for ingestion and warehousing.

You will work with SQL, Python, and Foundry to build semantic layers and dashboards, translating complex business questions into actionable insights while ensuring data quality

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data analytics, analytics engineering, data engineering, or a hybrid role, with recruiting analytics experience preferred.
• Deep familiarity with the recruiting domain: ATS schemas, funnel mechanics, requisition lifecycle, etc. with a point of view on recruiting metrics.
• Strong SQL experience.
• Experience building a real semantic/metrics layer that humans and BI tools actually query through.
• Track record shipping self-service dashboards for use at scale.
• Working Python skills and experience writing and operating custom API connectors.
• Comfort with modern orchestration, ELT tooling, and a cloud warehouse.
• Sharp judgment about infrastructure vs. manual answers.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with recruiting leadership, sourcers, and recruiters — learn the recruiting processes end-to-end and understand the data context to translate fuzzy business questions into precise data products.
• Own models for sourcing funnels, candidate journey, requisition lifecycle, sourcer/recruiter activity, outreach, and hiring outcomes.
• Build and maintain a semantic/metrics layer and expose metrics to self-serve dashboards for downstream users.
• Ship self-service dashboards (in Foundry) — e.g., funnel health, time-to-fill, sourcer productivity, outreach response rates, source-of-hire, pipeline coverage by req, conversion by stage and segment.
• Write and maintain custom connectors for TA tools and collaborate with People Data Team on orchestration and warehouse integration.
• Partner with TA Ops to enforce data quality so leadership can trust numbers in board decks and reviews.
• Handle people-data with rigor — PII, role-based access, audit trails, and ITAR/CUI considerations.

Skills

Recruiting analytics

SQL

Semantic layer

Dashboards

Python

APIs

Data warehousing

PII handling

Orchestration

US Person

Tools

Foundry

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Data Analyst, Talent Acquisition to join the rapidly growing Talent Operations team. You will transform recruiting and people data into models, metrics, and self-service tools used by leadership, sourcers, and recruiters, partnering with the People Data team for ingestion and warehousing.

You will work with SQL, Python, and Foundry to build semantic layers and dashboards, translating complex business questions into actionable insights while ensuring data quality