Toolmaker -- Full-Time

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 Tooling and Equipment Design Engineer to join our team in Costa Mesa, CA. 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.

As a Tooling and Equipment Design Engineer, you will be developing tooling, equipment, and layouts to support manufacturing processes, the production system, movement simulations and digital twins of the production environment in order to drive efficient, rapid, on‑time production and start‑up of the new production facilities for maritime vehicles. The right person for this role has designed tooling and equipment solutions enabling production systems and manufacturing models of the work environment for a variety of product lines, groups, or businesses and integrated with both internal and external customers. If you are someone who wants to develop innovative, adaptive, flexible, creative approaches to manufacturing production systems and develop unified solutions for lots of stakeholders then this role is for you.

Design tooling and equipment that integrates with factory manufacturing equipment, NC machinery, and robotic welding equipment to enable processing systems for supporting factory development and the future production system. You will utilize computer aided design, simulation, and computer graphics to enable lean manufacturing principles, integrated metrology and visual management, including technologies, tools and processes to improve production flow while enhancing product performance, space allocation and resource requirements across programs and products.

Support tooling and equipment integration, commissioning, and certification in prototype and production development

Develop, review, and validate tooling and equipment concepts to meet performance requirements

Team with manufacturing technology, facilities, and suppliers to create, source, and assess potential equipment and tooling to solve for production needs

Be on the floor communicating and integrating with fellow engineers and manufacturing personnel to perpetuate a cohesive mission‑oriented culture

Drive collaboration with manufacturing technology, product design, manufacturing engineering, operations, facilities and construction, environmental safety & health, and finance to deliver creative and effective production system designs, as well as external vendors supporting the design, construction, and commissioning of new facilities

5+ years of experience as a designer and developer of tooling, equipment and processes for manufacturing technology development, simulation modeling, digital thread development and/or production/process engineering

Technology development and implementation experience in equipment and tooling for large scale manufacturing

Ability to work hands‑on in a manufacturing environment, next to operations and manufacturing engineering to understand and optimize the production system

Ability to travel up to 50% of the time

Secret security clearance

Experience designing, manufacturing, procuring, installing, and maintaining tooling, fixturing, and manufacturing equipment and tooling

Process improvement, including justification of return on investment for process or operational changes

Application of lean manufacturing and linear flow principles in a production environment

Automation development for manufacturing processes in assembly, integration, test, and finishing operations

Design and construction of facilities, tooling, fixturing and equipment for large scale production systems

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: As set forth in Anduril Industries’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

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