Analytics Engineer, Test & Evaluation
Costa Mesa, CA - USA
Job Summary
ABOUT THE TEAM
The T&E Data Operations team builds the data infrastructure and analytical tools that power Andurils Test & Evaluation (T&E) function & turning telemetry test records and incident data into consistent automated views of how our systems are performing across the fleet. The work spans the full data pipeline: how data is created on the platform how its collected and egressed to the cloud how its modeled and how it reaches the engineers managers and leaders who act on it.
Were a new team within the T&E organization and were looking for someone willing to get their hands dirty and make high-impact foundational changes to the way we collect analyze and leverage our data.
ABOUT THE JOB
Youll take defined workstreams end-to-end & ingestion pipelines data models dashboards and the small services that tie them together & so the team can run more of them in parallel. Youll partner closely with product-line T&E teams software and infra teams and corporate analytics to ship real production-grade data products that replace and enhance the tools we rely on today.
Executional autonomy is a foundational pillar of this team. Youll be expected to drive the design the partnerships and the delivery. Were looking to encourage you to be a collaborator that feels comfortable proposing alternative solutions and even helping give shape to how the team executes over time.
WHAT YOULL DO
- Own data workstreams end-to-end & from ingestion of source data (JIRA telemetry Airtable Odoo etc.) through Foundry transforms and ontology modeling to the dashboards and tools that consume them
- Build and maintain Foundry pipelines (PySpark transforms) data models and data quality checks across
- Build internal-facing dashboards and analytics products (Streamlit Workshop) that serve flight test engineers middle management and leadership
- Write small production services (Python or Go) when integrations demand it & webhooks bridges daemons & and partner with the broader SWE organization when the work belongs with them
- Partner directly with product-line T&E leads software engineering teams and infrastructure teams to align on data contracts ingestion patterns and shared priorities
- Write clear design docs and RFCs that align stakeholders around technical decisions before code ships
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3 years of data engineering platform engineering or equivalent experience owning data systems end-to-end
- Strong Python and SQL; experience with DataFrame-based transforms (Pandas PySpark Polars or similar)
- Experience owning a data pipeline or integration end-to-end & from ingestion through to a downstream consumer (dashboard service or model)
- Hands-on experience integrating with REST APIs webhooks or third-party data sources
- Experience building internal-facing dashboards or analytics products (Streamlit Plotly Dash Workshop Tableau Looker or similar) & owning the full stack from data to UI
- Comfortable working on a small team (1-3 people) where scope is fluid and youre often the only person on your piece of work
- Think like a data product owner & when building a pipeline or model you can independently reason about what questions it needs to answer downstream not just what data to move
- Write clearly & design docs decision memos or technical RFCs that align stakeholders not just documentation after the fact
- Actively use AI coding tools (Claude Code Cursor Copilot or similar) as part of your daily workflow & integrated into how you build debug and write not occasional help
- U.S. Persons status is required as this position needs to access export-controlled data
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with Palantir Foundry & transforms ontology Workshop Streamlit
- Experience in robotics aerospace defense or hardware-adjacent data environments
- Comfortable reading or contributing to git repos in languages other than Python (e.g. Go Nix Terraform etc.)
- Experience with ontology modeling or data modeling for heterogeneous sources
- Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance
US Salary Range
$146000 - $194000 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 (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:
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