Engineering Operations Lead

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:

• Undergraduate degree in an engineering major
• Min 4 years of working experience with experience in a consulting, operations, finance, product management, or general business analysis role, and preferably also experience in a technical engineering role.
• A strong communicator across a wide dynamic range - Ability to translate and articulate thoughts clearly and simply across a wide range of roles (working level engineers, finance partners, recruiters, cross functional leadership, and executives).
• Experience interfacing with leadership and executives - you understand how to facilitate meetings for and engage with executives.
• Strong emotional intelligence and ability to solve operational problems not only from a data driven lens, but also in a people-centric way by building strong cross functional relationships across the company and within the hardware engineering organization.
• Combination ability to execute on a tactical level as well as put together a strategy to solve complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems. You can dive deep into executing operational tasks that require high attention to detail and high organization skills, but you can also zoom out at a 30,000 foot level to create a strategy that solves high level problems for the org and the company.
• High ownership with the horsepower to juggle multiple (3-5+) large projects and priorities in parallel, at a rapid pace, and report out on progress regularly without dropping any balls.
• Discerning and an incredibly fast learner
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs access to export-controlled data.
• Ability to obtain and hold a US Top Secret clearance is preferred