Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Drones

Anduril • Santa Ana, CA

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About The Position

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on advancing U.S. and allied military capabilities. Its Drones team is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to help bridge advanced product design and efficient, high-volume production for unmanned aerial systems, including Bolt, Ghost, Anvil, and future autonomous platforms. The role supports products from early design through manufacturing-process development and production ramp, with opportunities to own projects from inception through completion.

The engineer will help transition products from concept through prototype, pilot, and full production, providing daily production support and collaborating with design, planning, and production teams. The role also owns manufacturing documentation, supports capacity planning and continuous improvement, and works with suppliers and partner sites as needed.

Requirements

• Degree in a technical field such as engineering, mathematics, or a hard science.
• At least 5 years of experience in manufacturing or a similar position.
• World-class mission assurance, quality, attention to detail, and dedication.
• Genuine interest in manufacturing and eagerness to learn.
• Ability to creatively deliver hardware in a resource-constrained environment.
• Personal hands-on experience physically manufacturing hardware through methods such as machining, fabrication, soldering, or assembly; personal or extracurricular projects count.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building successful production operations from scratch, often with little definition.
• Harness and PCBA fabrication experience, or demonstrated competency in mechanical system design and analysis.
• Hands-on experience with R/C or autonomous flight vehicles, flight controllers, or related control systems.
• Software scripting experience in any language.
• Experience with NX/Teamcenter.

Responsibilities

• Support product transitions from concept to prototype, pilot, and full production while promoting speed, flexibility, scalability, and first-time quality.
• Provide daily sustaining support and solve mechanical fitment, electrical, harnessing, software, and firmware issues.
• Work with design engineers to incorporate design-for-manufacturing practices and facilitate transitions from design through prototype to rate production.
• Own manufacturing documentation, including MBOMs, work instructions, process flows, floor plans, time studies, and capacity analyses.
• Collaborate with internal customers and manufacturing planning teams to define capacity-planning actions that meet customer needs.
• Work with the production team to resolve complex issues and meet customer demand.
• Analyze metrics and lead continuous-improvement initiatives involving cost reduction, quality improvement, and capacity increases.
• Promote innovation, teamwork, and accountability within the manufacturing engineering product team.
• Travel to suppliers and partner sites for sourcing, production problem-solving, and implementation of process procedures.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are part of total compensation.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

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