Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Maritime Systems

Anduril's Manufacturing team is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to join our team. The Manufacturing 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. If you are someone who thrives in such an environment, then this role is for you.

- 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

- Demonstrated ability to creatively deliver electromechanical hardware in a resource-constrained environment

- Demonstrated in-kind or direct team leadership skills, with backing examples

- 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

- U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data

- PCBA fabrication experience including prior work with or setup/modification/monitoring SMT processes

- Hands-on experience with R/C and/or autonomous flight vehicles, flight controllers, or other related control systems