Core Technology Operations Lead Security Clearance

Position: Core Technology Operations Lead with Security Clearance
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 the Core Technology 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 the Head of Core Technology 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 Core Technology
* Develop, Refine, and Measure the processes that allows Core Technology to deliver centrally developed strategic technologies to the Business Lines as a 1st Party Supplier
* Set and track metrics for organizational health and performance on engineering deliverables
* Execute on strategic initiatives and take on special projects for the Head of Core Technology
* Drive day to day operations and develop internal processes/frameworks for efficient operations of for engineering departments. This will include staffing/hiring, communications, seating/facilities, financial tracking, etc. and working with cross functional partners across these domains. Specific examples include:
* Manage Core Tech'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 Core Tech 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.
* Highly self-motivated - You are capable of taking strategic direction, decomposing operational milestones, and setting the tactical week to week actions which you then drive yourself and your cross functional stakeholders to.
* 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…