Manufacturing Engineer

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

19d

About The Position

Anduril’s Manufacturing team is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to help rapidly iterate and build defense hardware, including static equipment, moving ground equipment, and flight vehicles. The engineer may own some or all of the manufacturing value chain for a product or set of products, including design for manufacturability, tooling, process development and optimization, vendor sourcing and interaction, quality planning, and manufacturing documentation.

The role involves developing tooling and process flows, creating documentation for repeatable production, collaborating with contract manufacturers, technicians, and engineers, and contributing hands-on to prototype development and end-customer hardware design. The engineer will also travel to suppliers to support sourcing, resolve production issues, and implement quality procedures. The role suits someone who has delivered a creative physical solution to a technical challenge in a fast-paced, resource-limited environment.

Requirements

• Degree in a technical field such as engineering, math, or a hard science.
• At least 2 years of experience in a relevant field, preferably manufacturing or design of electromechanical hardware.
• Demonstrated ability to creatively deliver electromechanical hardware in a resource-constrained environment.
• Demonstrated in-kind or direct team leadership skills, supported by examples.
• Personal experience physically manufacturing hardware through methods such as machining, fabrication, soldering, or assembly.
• Genuine interest in manufacturing and willingness to learn.
• U.S. Person status is required because the position needs access to export-controlled data.

Nice To Haves

• Personal or extracurricular project work.
• PCBA fabrication experience, including prior work with, setup or modification of, or monitoring SMT processes.
• Hands-on experience with R/C and/or autonomous flight vehicles, flight controllers, or related control systems.
• Software scripting experience in any language.

Responsibilities

• Own a portion or all of the manufacturing value chain for a product or set of products.
• Develop novel tooling solutions for fabricating and assembling structural parts.
• Develop process flows that break complex assemblies into logical parts, subassemblies, and subprocesses.
• Write documentation for manufacturing hardware at scale, including work instructions, quality plans, and inspection requirements.
• Work with contract manufacturers across disciplines such as PCBA fabrication, metallic manufacturing, and assembly to develop repeatable processes for quick-turn development and at-scale production.
• Work hands-on with technicians and other engineers to build prototype hardware.
• Contribute to mechanical or electrical design of end-customer hardware, including interconnects, board fabrication, and inspection.
• Travel to suppliers for initial sourcing, to resolve ongoing production issues, and to implement quality procedures.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level