Operations Analyst, Hardware Platform Operations

📋 Job Overview

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.

🏢 About Anduril Industries

The Hardware Platform Organization is Anduril's central hardware engineering org. We build the shared technologies, tools, and infrastructure that power hardware development across every Anduril division, from actuators and propulsion to batteries, avionics, rocket motors, and test operations. Our teams set engineering standards, run development manufacturing and test sites, and develop core technology products that ship across multiple product lines.

🎯 The Role

As a member of Hardware Platform Operations, you will work side by side with the operations leads who run the business of Hardware Platform, spanning both core engineering and Rocket Motor Systems, serving as a true right hand on the organization’s most important operational, financial, and strategic work. You will support headcount, budget, capital equipment, and planning workstreams day to day, and you will help with the high-stakes special projects that shape where the organization goes next. You will partner with engineering leadership, our business lines and divisions, Finance, Talent Acquisition, People Operations, Facilities, and central business operations to unpack ambiguous problems and turn them into lasting, scalable solutions.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to Special Projects and Strategic Analysis: Help the operations leads work through the organization’s highest-priority, most ambiguous problems and get them to a decision.
• Support the Budget and Financial Operating Rhythm: Track and analyze the financial levers behind Hardware Platform’s budget and fully allocated P&L, in partnership with FP&A.
• Partner on Annual Planning and Mid-Year Refresh: Coordinate the planning cycle for Hardware Platform, from input gathering through final submission.
• Coordinate Headcount and Staffing Operations: Track the full FTE lifecycle, from program demand intake and req approval through recruiting, onboarding, staffing assignments, and labor reporting.
• Assist with Capital Equipment and Space: Facilitate the lifecycle of Hardware Platform’s capital equipment, workspace, and lab footprint.
• Enable the Leadership Operating Cadence: Help keep the leadership team informed, aligned, and moving.
• Build Scalable Processes and Tools: Leave every process better, faster, and more automated than you found it.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, finance, economics, business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1+ years of experience in consulting, investment banking, buy-side investing, FP&A, business or strategic operations, or a similar analytical role.
• Bias for action: You move things forward without waiting to be asked, and you have a track record of following work through to outcomes, not just completing tasks.
• Proactive: You see the problem before it lands on your desk and show up with a proposed fix.
• Influence without authority: You have gotten busy, senior people to make a decision or take action, and you know how to do it with data, clarity, and good relationships.
• Strong analytical and financial foundation: You’re comfortable with financial modeling, variance analysis, and advanced Excel/Google Sheets, and can turn messy data into a clear answer.
• Clear, concise communicator: You write and present crisply to audiences ranging from individual engineers to executives.
• Accountable and organized: You juggle multiple projects in parallel, keep stakeholders updated without being chased, and close loops.
• Coachable and a fast learner: You have high emotional intelligence and a low ego, and you’re eager to learn quickly in a technical, fast-moving environment.
• U.S. Person status required due to access to export-controlled data.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• 4+ years of experience in the roles listed above, with demonstrated growth in scope and responsibility.
• Experience working within or supporting engineering or technical organizations, ideally in defense, aerospace, tech, hardware, or advanced manufacturing.
• Experience with headcount planning, capital expenditure planning, or facilities and space planning.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle, Anaplan, Foundry, SQL, or BI tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI), including building databases or dashboards from scratch.
• Experience using AI tools or automation to scale your own output and your team’s.
• Ability to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret clearance.

🎁 Benefits

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:

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

U.S. Person status required due to access to export-controlled data.