Planning Analyst, Anduril Industries
$113-149k
Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package
Office located in Costa Mesa, CA
Hardware and software for national security
Open for applications
Hardware and software for national security
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$113-149k
Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package
Office located in Costa Mesa, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To defend against America's national security challenges to create a safer future for the nation.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering or related technical field
- 2+ years of experience in analytics, operations engineering, data engineering, or software engineering roles, preferably in complex hardware technology industries
- Expertise in SQL with demonstrated ability to write complex queries
- Expertise in data visualization platforms such as Tableau, Looker, Power BI, Streamlit, Dash, or Palantir Foundry
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel including advanced formulas, live database connections, and VBA
- Proficient in at least one additional programming language such as Python, R, Typescript or similar, for analysis, data visualization, and automation
- Expertise in manufacturing operations concepts such as demand, supply, and material planning, bill of materials (BOM) management, work and purchase order management, and physical inventory management
- Experience working with ERP/MRP systems (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, or similar) and extracting/analyzing data from these platforms
- Working knowledge of Git/GitHub for version control
- Experience with APIs and parsing JSON/XML responses into structured datasets
Desirable
- You have strong operational instincts and a track record of owning complex, ambiguous planning problems from start to finish
- You think strategically and execute tactically—you’re just as comfortable designing a planning framework as you are diving into the details of a late supplier PO
- You bring a data-driven mindset and can turn analytics into action; you know how to interpret demand signals, build plans, and communicate clearly
- You’re systems fluent, with experience working across ERP platforms (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle), and can partner effectively with technical teams to improve tooling
- You lead with cross-functional empathy—understanding the needs of engineering, product, deployment, and finance to align priorities and deliver business outcomes
- You’re comfortable with ambiguity and energized by building structure in environments that are scaling fast
- You are high ownership, low ego, and value results over credit
- You anticipate friction before it happens and proactively work to prevent issues rather than react to them
What the job involves
- The Planning Analytics team is responsible for deeply understanding our internal planning tooling and process stack and the data that powers them
- They will build resources that transform data into ad hoc reporting, dashboards, web applications, and automated workflows to drive measurable improvements to business velocity in the planning space
- This team will partner across Anduril's production and CorpTech orgs to establish visibility and accelerate decision making
- As a Planning Analyst, you will work with our business-wide Analytics Engineering team to ensure their SQL data pipelines are modeled correctly for planning reporting
- You will use Palantir’s Foundry platform as your central resource for conducting ad-hoc analysis for planning teams, as well as producing dashboards and automated workflows that write back to our database via Python/Typescript actions
- You will gain a deep understanding of the different planning interfaces and craft tools that drive insights and workflows that enable real cost and time savings business impacts
- You are onboard with the goal of building out a world-class business analytics layer with truly novel solutions to planning problems
- Use SQL to transform raw ERP data extractions into structured datasets within a centralized GitHub repository
- Use Palantir’s Foundry platform to generate dashboards and automated workflows backed by Python/Typescript code repositories
- Work with planning leaders to define key performance metrics and implement systems for tracking over time
- Eliminate repetitious processes with programmatic automation in Python
- Manage cross-functional projects with clear and concise communication on timelines
- Assess and incorporate external data sources and software that could bring valuable insight for planners
- Educate business users with training/documentation and drive user adoption with a continual feedback loop
- Embed AI into workflows via Palantir’s Foundry platform to help summarize and drive signal from noise
Our take
Anduril makes hardware and software for defense agencies including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. Its hardware products include specialist drones with a long flight time and surveillance towers.
This hardware is tied together by proprietary software, the Lattice platform, which uses sensor fusion, machine learning, and mesh networking to integrate real-time data from Anduril hardware and third-party systems into a single, autonomous operating picture. While the hardware observes and detects, the software can make decisions as to the threat level of any anomalies, and so allow for observation and protection of an area or building with minimal manpower.
Anduril closed a $1 billion Series G funding round in 2025 led by the Founders Fund, doubling its valuation to $30 billion. This oversubscribed funding round came after the company doubled its revenue in 2024, when it won a contract with the US military to build its soldiers' VY/AR headsets for combat, a contract the company beat Microsoft to. On top of this, it's already raising a new round in 2026, aiming to double its valuation after winning a major US Space Force contract. The future, then, looks bright for Anduril.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
68% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
May 2026
$5bn
SERIES H
Jul 2025
$310m
GRANT
Total funding: $11.5bn
Company benefits
- Full Family Health Coverage
- 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave for All Caregivers
- Family Planning & Support
- Incentivized Time Off
- Mental Health Resources
- Financial Planning
- Unlimited Provisions
- Professional Development
Company HQ
Irvine Business Complex, Irvine, CA
Leadership
Brian Schimpf
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied at Cornell, they joined Palantir as an Engineer in 2007. They left after over 9 years in order to co-found Anduril in July 2017 as CEO.
Palmer Luckey
(Co-Founder)They founded Oculus VR in April 2012, where they worked until April 2017 when they co-founded Anduril.
Trae Stephens
(Co-Founder)Former Lead Data Analyst at LexisNexis for 2 years, prior to spending 5 at Palantir. They joined Founders Fund as a Partner in 2014, and co-founded Anduril in 2017.
Matt Grimm
(Co-Founder & COO)Studied Engineering at Cornell before working as a Booz Allen Hamilton Consultant and spending over 6 years at Palantir as a Forward Deployed Engineer. They worked at Mithril Capital Management and Classy.org before co-founding Anduril in 2017.
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