2027 Business Operations Intern
Anduril Industries
About the Role
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The company aims to bring the expertise, technology, and business model of 21st-century innovative companies to the defense industry. Anduril's systems are powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that creates a real-time, 3D command and control center from thousands of data streams.
Key Responsibilities
- Build Repeatable Analytics Workflows: Design, execute, and automate high-quality, repeatable data models and analytical pipelines to track critical operational, business, and financial metrics.
- Drive Business Decision-Making: Partner closely with leadership and functional stakeholders to deliver actionable insights, evaluate operational trade-offs, and guide strategic decisions through data synthesis.
- Data Visualization & Dashboarding: Develop clear, self-service dashboards and visualization frameworks to equip functional teams with tools and metrics to monitor and improve their processes.
- Executive Storytelling: Translate complex analyses into clean, executive-ready presentations, reports, and narratives, with results presented directly to senior leadership teams.
- System & Tool Deep-Dives: Work deeply within data tools and business infrastructure, including Salesforce, Oracle, Palantir Foundry, Databricks, and other core enterprise systems, to execute analyses on short timelines and build robust data pipelines.
- Drive Operational Excellence: Proactively identify friction and process bottlenecks across the organization, using quantitative analysis to drive sustainable operational solutions.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Salesforce
- Oracle
- Palantir Foundry
- Databricks
- SQL
Qualifications
- Pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Business Operations, Business Analytics, or a related field.
- Returning to school at the end of the internship to continue academic studies for at least one quarter or semester.
- U.S. Person status required due to access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities; U.S. clearance eligibility may be required.
- Ability to complete a 12-week in-person internship in one of Anduril's offices during summer 2027.
- Experience with Business Analytics and Data Visualization: Ability to structure ambiguous operational problems, manipulate large datasets, and present data visually to influence decisions.
- Exposure to querying and working within modern data and analytics platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Oracle, Palantir Foundry, Databricks, SQL, or equivalent enterprise data environments).
- High Fluency in Excel (modeling, pivot tables, data manipulation) and PowerPoint (building polished narrative decks).
- High Ownership & Bias for Action: Self-driven, hyper-organized, detail-oriented, proactive in identifying and addressing gaps, and capable of following through from insight to execution.