Analytics Lead, Manufacturing Quality

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. ABOUT THE SITE Anduril, a leader in autonomous systems and weapons manufacturing, is building Arsenal-1 , its first hyperscale manufacturing facility, just south of Columbus, Ohio in Pickaway County. Arsenal-1 is redefining the scale and speed that autonomous systems and weapons can be produced for the United States and its allies and partners. This is a monumental and essential step toward rebuilding America’s defense industrial base, strengthening America’s warfighting capabilities, and enhancing deterrence amid rising international threats. ABOUT THE TEAM Quality Intelligence supports data and AI in Anduril's manufacturing quality organization through three distinct areas: Analytics, Manufacturing AI, and Vision Inspection. Analytics owns end-to-end data and analytics work that directly drives impact for Anduril's product quality engineers on the factory floor. Our customers are program quality leaders, manufacturing engineers, and operators across sites and programs. The work encompasses building scorecards that catch quality drift before customers do, pipelines that turn ERP / MES / QMS data into decisions, and AI tools that compress hours of manual triage into minutes. We operate hub-and-spoke. HQ builds platform-grade analytics centrally; site engineers localize and run them at each manufacturing site. This is the site applications lead role at Arsenal-1 , Anduril's high-volume manufacturing site in Ashville, OH. You are the resident analytics engineer at the site and the person accountable for what Quality Intelligence has deployed there. Most of this role is hands-on build; the rest is running the site as a program: gathering requirements from the floor, sequencing the work, driving rollouts to completion, and feeding what you learn back into the HQ roadmap. Arsenal 1 is a lighthouse site, so the patterns you set here become the template for the factories that follow. This role is subject to ITAR. Applicants must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance. WHAT YOU’LL DO Intersection of Analytics and Manufacturing: You will operate at the intersection of hardware manufacturing and data analytics. You are not afraid to spend time on the shop floor analyzing quality workflows, building analytics tools for said workflows and implementing them in well-designed, actionable dashboards. Production Data: You'll pull from production systems (ERP, MES, QMS, inventory), build pipelines and ontologies in Palantir Foundry and Databricks, and partner with manufacturing engineers, ML practitioners, and program quality leads to ship analytics products operators depend on. Develop & Operate Analytics for Arsenal 1: You will design, build, and operate the production dashboards, pipelines, and quality metrics inspection-data analytics the site runs on. Arsenal 1 is greenfield, so you will collaborate closely with HQ to port over proven work. Well thought out decisions you make set the pattern for future programs. Run intake and priorities for the site: hold a standing feedback loop with operators, manufacturing engineers, and program quality. Turn what you hear into a prioritized, visible backlog — what you can configure this week, what needs HQ build time, and what we are deliberately not doing —…