Anduril Industries

Senior Engineering Finance Associate

Anduril Industries$99K — $130K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in manufacturing finance, engineering finance, or value engineering in a high-growth hardware company
  • Strong understanding of financial and accounting concepts
  • Exceptional analytical skills with a numerical approach to problem-solving
  • Proficiency in executing analyses quickly in Excel
  • Ability to quantify complex, ambiguous problems
  • Willingness to learn corporate systems and analytic tools
  • Strong communication skills for presenting to large groups and senior leadership
  • Flexible work style, balancing professional demands with personal time.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end project development from problem definition to implementation
  • Conduct quick, effective analyses while developing scalable long-term solutions
  • Manage project stakeholders and facilitate communication across teams
  • Gather data for should cost models and present findings to stakeholders
  • Create parametric cost models based on product capability and physics
  • Forecast product life cycle costs and assess viability, opportunities, and risks
  • Develop frameworks for value engineering and cost reduction roadmaps
  • Challenge engineering plans from a financial perspective.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package offered at low or no cost to employees
  • Support in health, recovery, and future planning
  • Highly competitive equity grants included with most job offers.
Full Job Description
ABOUT THE JOB
  • You will own development and production cost estimations for new products ranging in maturity from concept to in development
  • You will partner with leadership and teams from across the business to translate engineering problems into quantitative measures and partial solutions (with a financial lens)
  • Your work will vary from quick-turn analytical problem solving to process and data improvements and building out financial models
WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • Own projects end-to-end, from Definition, Solution, to Implementation. You will be handed ambiguous, messy problems with little prescription on how to solve them
    • Execute scrappy analyses on short timelines to get answers quickly, while also owning more scalable solutions that will make Anduril successful in the long term
    • Project manage across many stakeholders. If you don't like being the person leading meetings with large groups of people or managing large Slack channels to wrangle stakeholders towards a solution, this may not be the role for you
    • Work across functions and learn Anduril's business top-to-bottom. You will interact with Finance, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and more
  • Own detailed should cost models end-to-end, from on-the-ground gathering of data, through creating materials, to presenting them to stakeholders
    • Build parametric cost models for a variety of products breaking down products into first principles including capability and physics
    • Tying entire product life cycle costs together to forecast product business case viability, opportunities, and risks
  • Create novel frameworks for establishing a strong "value engineering" muscle
    • Establish transparency into material cost for existing and future Anduril products
    • Build financial models that help set material cost targets for different products
    • Work with the Engineering and Supply Chain teams to develop and implement cost reduction roadmaps
    • Help executives think through tradeoffs in product features vs. costs vs. profitability
  • "Red-Team" engineering plans from a financial / business perspective
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • You have minimum of 5 years of experience in manufacturing finance, engineering finance, or value engineering role at a high growth hardware company
  • You have a strong understanding of financial and accounting concepts
  • You have strong analytical aptitude. You intuitively think about problems in terms of numbers
  • You are able to quickly execute analyses in Excel
  • You have an ability to quantify complex often ambiguous problems
  • You are willing to learn how to use corporate systems (e.g. Salesforce, Coupa, Anaplan) and analytic / dashboarding tools (e.g. Palantir Foundry)
  • You are comfortable communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work. This role can at-times require comms to large groups and senior leadership
  • You enjoy working at a place where no one minds if you leave early one day to go to an appointment or run an errand, but you also don't mind responding to Slacks in the evening while you're watching Netflix
  • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Basic understanding of engineering design within one or more of the following: aerospace, software, maritime, or electronics
  • Understanding of configuration management principles and how to structure Bill of Materials
  • Familiarity with defense standards such as MIL-STD-881 and DOD MRA Frameworks


US Salary Range

$99,000-$130,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

About Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that develops advanced systems for the military. The company was founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, Trae Stephens, and Matt Grimm, and has since grown to become a major player in the defense industry. Anduril's products include autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and other advanced technologies that are designed to enhance military capabilities. The company has received significant funding from investors and has partnerships with several major defense contractors. Anduril is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Learn more about Anduril Industries
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2017

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