> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Senior Quality Engineer, Analytics Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/aa1f4ce49da9eafa Anduril posts a senior FDE role to build for teams inside the company in Ashville, OH, at $143,000–$191,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,863 postings with pay. Own the site-level deployment and operation of analytics for manufacturing quality at Arsenal-1, a greenfield high-volume factory near Columbus. Read from the employer’s posting on November 11, 2026. - [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) Posted Aug 3, 2026 by Anduril · open on Greenhouse as of Nov 11, 2026 **$143,000–$191,000** Ashville, OH On-site Own the site-level deployment and operation of analytics for manufacturing quality at Arsenal-1, a greenfield high-volume factory near Columbus. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Faa1f4ce49da9eafa&placement=top) - [View posting at Anduril](https://boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5198870007?gh_jid=5198870007) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $143K–$191K Below the median Midpoint $167K · median $190K This job $143K to $191K. Senior FDE postings, 1,863 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds for teams inside the company Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations Travel **Up to 25%** - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **4+ years** Data Engineer, Analytics Engineer, or similar role - **1+ years** Applied data experience in a hardware product engineering environment Background - **Software engineering** - **Implementation and data engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 1+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in Ashville, OH. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: Ashville, OH - **Work arrangement**: On-site - **Travel**: Up to 25% - **Pay**: ## More like this [Harper](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/harper) ### [Forward Deployed Operations](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/80b7ff167e547412) San Francisco, CA On-site 4mo ago $125,000–$175,000 [fluent](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fluent) ### [Software Engineer (AI Agents)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/aec65b08f12c40ef) US Remote New · 4d ago $130,000–$155,000 [MeridianLink](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/meridianlink) ### [Sr AI Architect - Internal Business Applications](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6ccb6e8f65dcd77e) US Remote 4w ago $150,000–$200,000 - [Other jobs at Anduril (39)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) ## The job description from Anduril Posted by Anduril on Aug 3, 2026 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 — and file crisp, evidence-backed asks back to HQ so the platform gets better. - **Investigate data quality:** When a dashboard is inaccurate or a number looks wrong, you are the lead investigator. Deep-dive analysis in SQL and Python, trace problems through the stack, identify the root cause, and fix it at the source. - **Drive technical improvements:** You will implement robust data-quality checks, validation rules, and automated monitoring directly in the pipelines. Your data is trusted because you made it provably trustworthy. - **Build AI-assisted analytics tools:** small apps and workflows in Foundry / Databricks that reduce repetitive analyst work by 10x, grounded in what you have learned from operators on the floor. - **Lead data projects end-to-end:** partner with cross-functional teams from requirements through deployment. Translate program quality leads' problems into data products that already exist or can be configured quickly and own the rollout. - **Drive adoption:** a dashboard nobody opens is ineffective. You will train operators, run office hours, track usage, and treat adoption at Arsenal 1 as a deliverable you own, not a downstream side effect. - **AI Use:** You will be expected to use AI aggressively in your own work: to draft pipelines, write tests, generate dashboards, explore unfamiliar data, and accelerate the repetitive parts of the job. - **Collaboration: **Collaborate with cross-functional teams, which requires regular interaction with production and manufacturing stakeholders and frequently working directly on the production floor. ### REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field from an accredited engineering program. - 4+ years in a Data Engineer, Analytics Engineer, or similar role with at least 1 year applied data experience in hardware product engineering environment. - You understand how manufacturing works: the workflows, the quality gates, and how manufacturing data drives or degrades quality outcomes. You are willing to work in and around manufacturing operations, including time on the production floor. - Experience with Foundry, Databricks or an equivalent cloud lake house. You have built and maintained pipelines and dashboards other teams depend on. - Strong SQL on large, multi-source datasets: joins across heterogeneous systems, window functions, and performance tuning. - Strong applied experience using AI (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, AIP) with ability to review AI-generated artifacts critically. You are aware of the mistakes AI tools can make, with a clear view of where they help and where they don't. - Demonstrated root-cause analysis on complex data issues. When a number looks wrong, you can trace it back through the stack and explain why. - Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance (this role is subject to ITAR). - You communicate plainly: to a director without jargon, to an engineer without losing precision. - Based in or willing to relocate to the greater Columbus, OH area and work on-site at Arsenal 1 in Ashville, OH. - Travel up to 25% to Anduril sites and vendors. - U.S. citizenship is required pursuant to contractual obligations. ### PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience supporting analytics for hardware manufacturing (NPI, ramp, high-volume) across any of ERP (Oracle, NetSuite, SAP), MES, QMS, PLM (Teamcenter), or inventory / warehouse systems. - Strong Python for data transformation and scripting (Pandas, PySpark, or equivalent). - Experience as an embedded or site-resident engineer at a manufacturing or industrial site, or standing up systems and data at a greenfield facility. - Familiarity with quality methodologies: RCCA / 8D, FMEA, GD&T, IQC / OQC, control-plan design. - Defense or regulated-manufacturing experience (ITAR, AS9100, IPC-610, MIL-STD-1916, or similar). - Software engineering practices: Git, code review, CI, and testing data code with the same rigor as application code. - Experience integrating LLMs or ML models into analytics workflows: RAG over operational data, AI-assisted triage, or agentic data exploration. - Experience mentoring or leading a small team of engineers or analysts. US Salary Range $143,000—$191,000 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.* ### Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information. To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind: - **No Financial Requests: **Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates. ### Please always verify communications: - Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will *only* come from an @anduril.com address. - Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. 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