VP Manufacturing Engineering

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

The Vice President, Manufacturing Engineering holds executive accountability for defining, scaling, and optimizing manufacturing engineering across the Anduril enterprise. The role includes strategic development, execution of multi-year operational roadmaps, technological and process advancement, and organizational leadership across product lines, production sites, and divisions. The VP ensures consistent, rapid, high-standard execution that drives efficiency, scale, and performance in support of Anduril's mission and market leadership. This centralized role ensures that every division builds against a common standard.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive experience in manufacturing engineering, production operations, or industrial engineering in a hardware or physical-product environment.
• 5–7+ years at the executive level (VP or Senior Director) leading multi-team or multi-site organizations.
• Exceptional presentation, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align C-suite leaders and motivate frontline operators.
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing, Electrical, or Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering or technical discipline.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or MBA.
• Experience navigating high-mix/low-volume transitions into high-volume/mass delivery.
• Background in fast-paced, high-accountability sectors such as aerospace, defense, deep-tech, autonomous systems, or high-growth industrial tech.

Responsibilities

• Own the overarching manufacturing engineering strategy, operational roadmap, and resource budget for Anduril's centralized manufacturing engineering organization.
• Develop and champion a multi-year scaling strategy to meet growth targets, changing operational constraints, and evolving customer demands.
• Allocate talent, capital, systems, and facilities across competing priorities, balancing urgent tactical needs with long-term capability building.
• Establish and enforce enterprise standards for production line operation, manufacturing systems usage, process design, and engineering practice, and hold division production leadership accountable to them.
• Own the roadmap for centralized capabilities and ensure they scale across product lines.
• Partner with and influence VPs and Heads of Production across all divisions, setting technical direction for organizations that do not report to the role.
• Drive consistency in how manufacturing engineering roles are defined, leveled, and expected to perform at every Anduril site, and deploy leadership and individual-contributor talent across the enterprise.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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