Business Operations Associate, Factory Systems

What you'd do

• Procurement engine (hardware & software).
• Design and run the process that turns a defined hardware or software need into a compliant purchase and an on-time delivery.
• This includes purchasing and approval workflows, cost allocation across business lines, vendor management, and reconciliation.
• Take defined needs from our engineering and site teams and drive them end to end.
• Logistics & the dock-to-line pipeline.
• Own the physical flow from receiving dock to production floor: receiving, staging, verifying that what arrived matches what was ordered, deployment coordination, and the reverse logistics (swaps, refreshes, RMAs, and vendor returns) that a growing fleet generates.
• Make physical status match system status in your warehouse and ticketing tools.
• Software licensing & compliance.
• Stand up the master software inventory (categorized by cost type and license type), drive the shift from individual to enterprise licensing on shared devices, keep procurement compliant with internal security review, and own the licensing procurement and accounting model.
• Standards & scale (cross-cutting).
• Turn what you build into documented, repeatable SOPs and dashboards that run on process and not heroics.
• The systems should be designed from day one to scale with a rapidly growing fleet and to be turnkey operated.

What they want

• A builder. You’ve stood up processes or functions from a blank page, not just run ones someone else designed. You’re comfortable going from 1 to 10 as you are from 10 to 100.
• Procurement, IT lifecycle, or logistics specialist. You bring real depth in at least one of procurement, asset/IT lifecycle, or logistics, enough to know what “good” looks like and not reinvent wheels.
• A generalist operator. You can move across functions and learn new domains fast. You’re either a generalist with direct experience in one of these areas, or a single-function specialist who desires to take on more breadth.
• Hands-on. You’ll be a team of one at first. You’re willing to do the unglamorous work while designing the system that eliminates it.
• Calm in ambiguity, fast in execution. Anduril moves quickly. You handle competing priorities and incomplete information without losing the thread.
• Building from zero. Demonstrated track record of building operational processes or standing up a function from scratch. This is the core requirement, more than years spent in any one function.
• Operating experience. 5+ years across operations, business operations, procurement, supply chain, IT/OT asset management, or a comparable generalist operating role, ideally in a fast-paced hardware, manufacturing, or defense environment.
• One domain of depth. Real depth in at least one of: procurement/purchasing, asset/IT lifecycle management, or logistics.
• Systems fluency. Fluency operating across connected systems (e.g., ticketing, warehouse, and ERP tools) and turning spreadsheet chaos into auditable process.
• Influence without authority. Strong structured problem-solving and the ability to align Engineering, Operations, IT, Security, and Finance without direct authority.

About Anduril · Corporate Technology : ArsenalOS : Factory Systems

Factory Systems keeps Anduril’s production lines running by making sure the right hardware and software get purchased, received, tracked, licensed, and sustained. Our factory footprint is scaling rapidly, and the fleet of devices we support is growing quickly. The procurement, logistics, and licensing processes that can absorb that growth do not yet exist. This is more of a business operations role than a functional logistics or IT seat.