2026 Early Career Engineering Finance Associate

About the role

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

• Support projects end-to-end, from Definition, Solution, to Implementation.
• 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.
• 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.
• Create parametric cost models for a variety of products breaking down products into first principles including capability and physics.
• Tie entire product life cycle costs together to forecast product business case viability, opportunities, and risks.
• Establish a strong “value engineering” muscle.
• Establish transparency into material cost for existing and future Anduril products.
• Create 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.

Required Qualifications

• A recent graduate with a mathematics, data analytics, and/or engineering background, interested in aerospace industry.
• A strong understanding of mathematics or model building.
• A strong analytical aptitude. You intuitively think about problems in terms of numbers.
• An ability to quickly execute analyses in Excel.
• An ability to quantify complex often ambiguous problems.
• A deep fascination with the intersection of engineering design and how businesses grow and scale.
• An ability to communicate broadly and have a lot of eyes on your work. This role can at-times require comms to large groups and senior leadership.
• An enjoyment of 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.
• A U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• A basic understanding of engineering design within one or more of the following: aerospace, software, maritime, or electronics.
• An 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.

Benefits

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:

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees).
• Health, recovery, and whatever comes next support.

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