Special Projects, Production

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.

Special Projects is Anduril’s production strike team. We are a small, elite group embedded directly in Production — Anduril’s largest, fastest-growing organization responsible for procuring, manufacturing, and delivering hardware to warfighters. We exist because scaling a hardware company at Anduril’s pace creates problems that can’t be solved from a conference room. They have to be solved on the floor, at the supplier, in the system — wherever the constraint actually lives.

Think of us as Anduril’s equivalent of a rapid-response taskforce: a handful of high‑output operators deployed against the highest-priority, hardest problems in Production. We report into Production leadership and are handed the problems that are too messy, too cross‑functional, or too urgent for the normal operating rhythm to absorb. Our mandate is simple: deliver hardware on‑time, with quality, at cost — and remove whatever stands in the way of that.

You will be deployed against the most critical bottlenecks in Production — whether that’s a supplier who can’t hit rate, a manufacturing line that’s bleeding yield, a system that’s generating bad data, or a process that’s adding weeks to delivery. You go where the problem is, you diagnose it, and you fix it. You work across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Planning, Quality, Test, and any other function that touches the critical path.

You are equally comfortable in an ERP system and on a production floor.

• Own problems end-to-end, from root cause to implemented fix. You will be handed ambiguous, urgent, messy situations with zero prescription on how to solve them. You define the problem, build the solution, and drive it to completion. If the idea of figuring it out from scratch does not excite you, this is not the role.
• Go to the floor. Go to the supplier. Go to the warehouse. This role requires physical presence where hardware is being built, tested, stored, and shipped. You will spend significant time on production floors, at supplier facilities, and in stockrooms — not in conference rooms theorizing about what might be happening.
• Attack cost and schedule relentlessly. Everything we do ladders up to shipping hardware on‑time and  will own projects that directly reduce unit cost, eliminate schedule delays, improve yield, or increase throughput. You measure your impact in dollars saved, days recovered, and units shipped.
• Fix the systems, not just the symptoms. Anduril is a hardware business, and tracking hardware is messy. You will work at the intersection of physical operations and software systems — inventory management, asset tracking, MES, ERP, MRP — to ensure our tools and data infrastructure can keep pace with our growth. When a system is broken or a process is generating garbage data, you fix it.
• Drive decisions through data, fast. You will execute rapid, scrappy analyses to get answers on short timelines — then build more scalable solutions where warranted. You are fluent in Excel, SQL, or tools like Palantir…