Manager Semantic Jobs in California (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on enhancing military capabilities with advanced technology. The Product Manager, Semantic Layer & Ontology will own the product suite for defining and maintaining a semantic layer, collaborating across various data functions to establish a unified source of truth for the organization.
Responsibilities:
• Own product strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for the product suite that supports building and maintaining the semantic layer and ontology.
• Partner across data engineering, analytics engineering, data analytics, and master data management to define shared metrics, dimensions, entities, and relationships once, then reuse them everywhere.
• Turn conflicting definitions, data disputes, and modeling ambiguity into a governed source of truth that teams adopt.
• Act as a hands-on builder by submitting code PRs with AI coding agents such as Claude Code for the semantic layer application.
• Build and operate a feedback and triage loop for definition requests, data-quality issues, and adoption blockers.
• Define governance and contribution standards for the ontology, including ownership, versioning, and change management, so the model stays coherent as sources and teams grow.
• Balance a canonical master data model against the speed analytics and downstream teams need to ship.
• Communicate modeling decisions, trade-offs, and data-quality risks to data teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Establish a model for AI-enabled product development where the PM contributes directly to the semantic layer without compromising lineage, reliability, or governance.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years of experience across product management and one or more data functions: data engineering, analytics engineering, data analytics, or master data management, in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated experience owning a data product, or working in a data technical function and pivoting into product.
• Demonstrated builder orientation, including submitting code such as SQL, dbt, Python, or semantic-layer definitions, and shipping with AI coding agents.
• Strong technical fluency in semantic layers, dimensional modeling, data pipelines, and the trade-offs between a governed model and local team speed.
• Demonstrated ability to work across multiple data teams with competing definitions and align them on a shared model.
• Ability to operate with high autonomy while maintaining judgment, communication, and alignment across data engineering, business partners, and leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior engineers, data teams, and executive leadership.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Statistics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.
Preferred:
• Hands-on experience with a semantic layer or metrics layer (dbt Semantic Layer, Cube, LookML, AtScale, Malloy, or similar) and modern warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks.
• Experience owning or contributing to a master data management program, including entity resolution, golden records, and stewardship.
• Familiarity with frontier AI tooling, AI coding assistants, and agentic development workflows applied to data and analytics.
• Experience building against a data catalog, lineage, or governance tooling in a large or fast-growing data estate.
• Familiarity with enterprise systems and business process domains such as ERP, CRM, finance, supply chain, or manufacturing.
• Experience in hyper growth startup-like environments, with demonstrated success balancing speed, ambiguity, autonomy, and long-term data health.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.
Company:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that specializes in developing advanced autonomous systems to enhance national security. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Costa Mesa, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.