Brian Schimpf

Career

Schimpf founded and led Cornell University's autonomous vehicle research program, whose teams competed in the DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge, and published technical papers on autonomous vehicles based on that work. Schimpf then joined Palantir Technologies as an early hire, built the Foundry product and led the engineering and product organizations as Director of Engineering.¹

Anduril

Anduril's December 2024 announcement of its OpenAI partnership names Schimpf as co-founder and CEO, and quotes Schimpf on using AI to help military operators make faster, more accurate decisions. In January 2025, as CEO, Schimpf announced the promotion of Christian Brose and Matthew Steckman to president-level roles.²³

Work and contributions

• Anduril and OpenAI partnership Proprietary product

  Announced, as co-founder and CEO, Anduril's partnership with OpenAI to apply OpenAI's AI expertise to air defense capability gaps for U.S. and allied forces.²

Timeline

1. Dec 4, 2024Announced Anduril's partnership with OpenAI on AI for air defense.²
2. Jan 23, 2025Announced, as CEO, the promotion of two Anduril executives to president roles.³

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Early hire; built the Foundry product and led engineering and product as Director of Engineering, Palantir Technologies¹
• Founder and lead of the university's autonomous vehicle research program (DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge teams), Cornell University¹

Where they work

• Anduril Industries 1 person in the wiki

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