Head of Operations, Anduril Industries
AD&S Engineering
$120-200k
Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers
Office located in Costa Mesa, California
Hardware and software for national security
Be an early applicant
Hardware and software for national security
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$120-200k
Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers
Office located in Costa Mesa, California
1001+ employees
Company mission
To defend against America's national security challenges to create a safer future for the nation.
Role
Who you are
- You’re highly analytical and love solving complex, cross-functional problems in a people centric way
- You’re both high ownership and low ego, approaching everything with strong outcome orientation and high humility
- You’re highly detail oriented and data-driven
- You’re discerning and an incredibly fast learner
- You’re tactical and don’t only sit at a 30,000 foot level
- You have 8+ years of varied experience in an operating role at a high-growth technology company, starting a venture, or in finance or consulting
- You have a background in engineering
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a US Top Secret clearance
What the job involves
- The Air Dominance and Strike Division is one of Anduril’s fastest growing divisions
- Our goal is to fundamentally reshape the way future peer to peer conflicts are fought by developing next generation collaborative combat aircraft, advanced effects, and the software that powers these autonomous weapons
- The AD&S Operations team is a small but mighty team of business generalists who enable the division to scale through hyper-growth while breaking as few things as possible
- The Head of Operations, AD&S Engineering will partner closely with our VPs of Hardware and Software Engineering and lead an operations team responsible for business operations across our functional engineering organizations
- Partner with the VPs of Hardware and Software Engineering and their leadership teams to drive and execute strategy for organizational development that will scale and meet engineering needs across the AD&S division
- Define the org vision, org operating model, and annual goals
- Determine investments for engineering capabilities and technology development
- Set and track metrics for organizational health and performance on engineering deliverables
- Drive day-to-day operations and develop internal processes and frameworks for efficient operations of the AD&S Engineering org. This includes staffing and hiring, org communications, performance management and compensation, seating, and financial tracking
- Build out and run the talent management machine for our organization, enabling efficient recruiting, development, and allocation of talent as the organization scales from 100s to 1000s
- Collaborate closely with the AD&S Recruiting team to ensure the correct types and quantities of new employees are coming in the door and reprioritizing recruiting resources as needed
- Work with Engineering leadership to understand employee performance and career development plans
- Drive annual planning as part of the corporate planning cycle
- Work with corporate technology to build the underlying data and system infrastructure for organizational operations - Confluence spaces, Jira systems, Foundry dashboards, etc
- Manage organizational communications internal to the team and external across the division, such as All Hands and Onsites
- Lead a small operations team to support day to day org tactical operations and strategic initiatives within the engineering departments
- Execute strategic initiatives for the organization across staffing, finance, real estate, and other business infrastructure
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 Series E funding round in 2022 led by Valor Equity Partners. This funding was used for research and development of its autonomous defense products, such as the Roadrunner, a modular twin-jet powered autonomous vehicle that can take off and land vertically. Variants of the Roadrunner include defensive warhead armed interceptors which are the first drone weapons that can be retrieved after deployment. The company has also expanded to Australia where it is working in tandem with the Australian Defence Force to improve its military technology and infrastructure and is recruiting talent worldwide to support its rapidly growing portfolio of defense projects.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
68% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2025
$2.5bn
SERIES G
Jan 2025
$14.3m
GRANT
Total funding: $6.2bn
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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