Manufacturing Engineering Planning

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years. Anduril’s Manufacturing Technology, Maritime Team is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Maritime Systems. The Maritime Manufacturing Technology Team is responsible for rapidly developing and implementing manufacturing technologies and processes for cutting-edge defense hardware, including deployable static and moving surface, undersea and sea to air vehicles and scaling these products in our new manufacturing facilities.
Anduril’s Maritime Manufacturing team in Santa Ana, CA is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to join us. This team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware, including static equipment, moving ground equipment, and flight vehicles. This responsibility includes everything in the manufacturing value-chain, including, but not limited to, Design for Manufacturability work, tool design & selection, process creation & optimization, vendor sourcing & interaction, quality planning, and work documentation associated with the hardware that the Manufacturing Engineer owns.
The right person for this role can demonstrate past holistic ownership on solving a technical challenge with a creative, physical, solution that they either personally manufacturing or oversaw manufacturing on, in a fast-paced, resource-limited environment. Own a portion or all of the manufacturing value chain for a certain product or set of products.
Develop novel tooling solutions for fabrication and assembly of structural parts.
Develop process flows, breaking down large, complex assemblies into a logical part flow of subassemblies and sub-processes.
Write documentation required for successfully manufacturing their hardware at scale, such as work instructions, quality plans, inspection requirements, etc.
Work with contract manufacturers across various disciplines (PCBA fab, metallic manufacturing, assembly, etc.) to develop repeatable, sustained processes for quick-turn development as well as at-scale production.
Work with technicians and other engineers hands-on, building prototype hardware.
Contribute to end-customer hardware mechanical or electrical design, including interconnects, board fabrication and inspection, etc.
Travel to suppliers to do initial sourcing work, solve ongoing production issues, and implement quality procedures.
Degree in a technical field such as engineering, math, or a hard science.

• 2+ years of experience in a relevant field, preferably manufacturing or design of electromechanical hardware.
• Personal experience physically manufacturing hardware via any means (machining, fabrication, soldering, assembly, etc.) Work on personal or extracurricular projects is a plus.
• A genuine interest in manufacturing and thirst for learning.
• S. export-controlled information or facilities.
• Secret security clearance.

PCBA fabrication experience including prior work with or setup/modification/monitoring SMT processes.
Software scripting experience in any language.
Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
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