Engineering Operations Lead

Engineering Operations Lead

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.

As an Engineering Operations Lead, you will work directly with the Hardware Engineering Leadership team and the Head of Core Technology to build and run business operations across the Hardware Engineering Organization and cross functional partners. The Hardware Engineering organization is the central engineering organization across Anduril that upholds the bar of engineering excellence, provides core engineering services, and develops strategic core technology products for hardware development across Anduril. In this role, you will partner with hardware engineering org leadership and teams from across the organization and company spanning our business lines and divisions to our Finance and G&A teams to our core internal operations teams to unpack ambiguous problems and build lasting, scalable solutions. Your work will vary from quick-turn operational fire-fighting, building and redesigning processes, to leading high-impact strategic projects. Your role and team will enable and provide operational leverage to the engineering organization that underpins and differentiates Anduril as the next generation defense prime. Here's what you'll do :

• Partner with an Engineering Department Leader from Hardware Engineering Org leadership to drive and execute upon strategy that will scale and meet engineering needs across Anduril divisions.
• Define the vision, operating model, and annual goals for an engineering department
• Determine investments for engineering capabilities and technology development
• Set and track metrics for organizational health and performance on engineering deliverables
• Execute on strategic initiatives and take on special projects for engineering departments
• Drive day to day operations and develop internal processes / frameworks for efficient operations of for engineering departments. This would include staffing / hiring, communications, performance management / compensation, seating / facilities, financial tracking, etc. and working with cross functional partners across these domains. Specific examples include :
• Manage an engineering department's budget in partnership with a FP&A partner to track financial health of budget against goals and deliverables.
• Support tactical staffing assignments in service of critical business line needs.
• Drive annual planning efforts for an engineering department as part of the corporate planning cycle.
• Engage with Anduril leadership as a representative for an engineering department leader to report risks and developments within the department.

Here's who you are :

US Salary Range $146,000 - $170,000 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 (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 Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including :