Quality Engineer, Analytics
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$127k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and improve production dashboards, data pipelines, quality metrics, and ontologies for the Atlanta manufacturing site.
- Pull and integrate production data from ERP, MES, QMS, inventory, and other systems using Palantir Foundry and Databricks.
- Investigate inaccurate dashboards and data issues using SQL and Python, trace problems through the stack, and fix root causes.
- Implement data-quality checks, validation rules, and automated pipeline monitoring.
- Build AI-assisted analytics applications and workflows that reduce repetitive analyst work.
- Gather requirements from operators, manufacturing engineers, and quality leaders; prioritize the site backlog and communicate needs to HQ.
- Partner with cross-functional teams from requirements through deployment and support analytics product rollouts.
- Drive adoption through operator training, office hours, usage tracking, and ongoing site support.
- Use AI tools to draft pipelines, write tests, generate dashboards, explore data, and accelerate repetitive work.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 2 years of experience in a Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Analytics Engineer, or similar role.
- Experience with Foundry, Databricks, or an equivalent cloud lakehouse, including building or maintaining relied-upon pipelines and dashboards.
- Strong SQL skills with large, multi-source datasets, including heterogeneous joins, window functions, and performance tuning.
- Applied experience with Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, AIP, or similar AI tools, including critically reviewing generated artifacts.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot data issues and trace incorrect results through the data stack.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance; the role is subject to ITAR.
- Ability to communicate clearly with both directors and engineers.
- Ability to travel up to 25% to Anduril sites and vendors.
- Preferred: hardware manufacturing or production-floor experience and familiarity with ERP, MES, QMS, PLM, inventory, or warehouse systems.
- Preferred: strong Python for data transformation and scripting, including Pandas, PySpark, or equivalent.
- Preferred: familiarity with RCCA, 8D, FMEA, GD&T, IQC, OQC, and control-plan design.
- Preferred: defense or regulated-manufacturing experience, including ITAR, AS9100, IPC-610, or MIL-STD-1916.
- Preferred: software engineering practices such as Git, code review, and testing data code.
- Preferred: experience integrating LLMs or ML models into analytics workflows, including RAG, AI-assisted triage, or agentic data exploration.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive comprehensive benefits available at little to no cost, including health and recovery support.
- The role offers competitive benefits and may include equity grants as part of total compensation.
- The position is based at the Atlanta manufacturing facility and requires up to 25% travel to Anduril sites and vendors.
About Anduril Industries
Anduril is not a traditional defense contractor. We are shaping the future of defense, transforming US & allied military capabilities with advanced technology. We emphasize speed and results and control our products from start to finish, including funding R&D to selling finished products off the shelf. Today, Anduril is in a rapid growth phase, deploying technology in diverse locations and developing path-making products that will change defense forever. We believe that everyone at Anduril can be a catalyst. Your perspective can change lives, and we want to help you make your mark. Our team includes thinkers and doers working interdependently. We bring the brightest minds and best-in-class talent together with veterans who have lived the problems of our warfighters. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in the real world, we want you at Anduril. With offices in Orange County, Washington DC, Seattle, Boston, Atlanta, London, and Sydney, our reach is wide. Check out our careers page at https://www.anduril.com/careers or send us an email at careers@anduril.com.