Description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.
The Legal Operations team is responsible for optimizing the efficiency and effectiveness of the Legal Department at Anduril and works cross-functionally to streamline workflows, automate routine tasks, implement best practices and support regulatory compliance efforts.
We are looking for a Legal Operations Engineer to join our rapidly growing team on-site in Costa Mesa, California. This is a hands-on technical execution role where you’ll serve as the operational backbone for the Legal Department’s technology ecosystem for our fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team.
Responsibilities
- Systems Administration & Operational Excellence
- Integrate into the Legal Department's intake and support queue in Jira - triaging tickets, setting expectations, resolving requests, and escalating what needs a lawyer's judgment
- Serve as frontline administrator and first responder for our legal systems, including CLM, e-signature, matter management, document management, e-billing, and AI tooling
- Monitor existing automations and integrations for failures, diagnose root causes, and fix them
- Execute recurring operational work: user provisioning and offboarding, template updates, approval routing changes, access reviews, and system hygiene checks
- Maintain data integrity and quality across contract and matter management systems
- Produce and refresh recurring reporting and dashboards on cycle times, request volume, contract throughput, and outside counsel spend
- Process Improvements
- Make incremental improvements to existing workflows: reduce manual steps, tighten validation, add conditional logic, eliminate the failure modes you keep seeing in the queue
- Build automations and integrations to close gaps between systems using no-code/low-code platforms, APIs, and scripting
- Track recurring pain points from the ticket queue and surface them to Legal Ops with a proposed fix and a rough sense of effort
- Assist with data migrations and configuration changes during larger Legal Ops initiatives
- Support AI tooling in the department - prompt and template maintenance, output quality spot-checks, and honest reporting on where the tool isn't working
- Growing into
- Driving tool adoption through training, office hours, and enablement materials
- Scoping and designing new workflows and lightweight applications from ambiguous requirements, with increasing autonomy over time
- Translating what lawyers, paralegals and peer operations associates need into technical requirements, then building, documenting, and supporting the result
- Taking a lead technical role in new system implementations and vendor evaluations
- Partnering with IT, Security, Procurement, and Finance on integrations, vendor onboarding, data handling, and export control requirements
- Shaping the technical direction of the Legal Department's tooling as this function expands
Requirements
- 2-4 years of relevant experience in legal operations, legal technology, systems administration, technical support, or a comparable operations/tooling role
- Hands-on experience administering or supporting at least one business system end user - CLM, matter management, e-billing, document management, e-signature, CRM, or similar
- Demonstrated technical execution capability: you have built automations in a no-code/low-code platform, written scripts or queries, or worked with APIs
- Track record working an operational queue with volume and shifting priority, and closing tickets rather than accumulating them
- Proficiency in productivity & management tools such as Airtable, Slack, DocuSign, Jira, Salesforce, Oracle ERP, and/or Foundry, and experience in learning new platforms quickly
- Working understanding of contracts and legal workflows
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain a technical constraint to a lawyer and a legal requirement to an engineer
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy; you understand that in legal systems a silent data error is worse than a loud outage
- The ability to build strong relationships within the team and cross-functionally, including IT, Security, Real Estate, Procurement, Finance, and Growth/Business Development stakeholders
- Solutions oriented, with a bias toward automation, process optimization and scalable systems over manual workarounds
- Quick learner and independent performer; you're able to work with autonomy and are eager to make an impact on an organization including in topics that may be completely new to you
- Willing to wear multiple hats with shifting priorities and work on projects of all types, big and small
- Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
- A positive, team player attitude, good judgment, and eagerness to help others
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities