Mechanical Engineer, Lead

The role

You will lead core product development for drones and complex systems including optical gimbals, batteries, and sensors. You will own product integration from concept to full rate production and provide technical leadership to multi-disciplinary teams.

What you will do

• Own complete integration and execution of complex products from concept to full rate production
• Drive technical teams through leadership, mentorship, and strategic direction
• Define best practices and standards across the organization
• Lead design reviews and serve as a technical advisor
• Perform advanced hand calculations and FEA to optimize designs
• Build prototypes and execute hardware test plans
• Produce technical documentation summarizing results
• Perform root cause investigations for hardware failures
• Optimize for development speed, mass, manufacturability, cost, and sustainment
• Support critical hardware demonstrations with customers

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive mechanical/design experience
• 3+ years in technical leadership roles managing engineering teams
• Demonstrated wholistic ownership of challenging technical problems and multiple complete products or product families from concept through production
• Experience scaling and shipping complex products
• Expert CAD skills
• Expertise in structures, thermal management, and mechanisms, with depth in electrical integration
• Proven ability to set the standard for technical work within a group
• Expert in standard manufacturing methods including designing for manufacturability and scale
• Strong engineering judgment
• Ability to communicate technical value in terms of finance, impact, and business position
• Excellence in delivering clear, complex ideas in writing and speech
• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent work experience

Nice to have

• Expert proficiency in Solidworks or NX, and PLM systems
• Mastery of GD&T application and ability to define standards for others
• Deep expertise in multiple manufacturing methods: CNC machining, composites, sheet metal, injection molding, PCBA integration
• Exceptional leadership and interpersonal skills
• Experience authoring responses to RFIs, proposals to customers and agencies, or white papers
• Extensive experience running qualification campaigns for flight hardware
• Expert-level experience designing for rugged environments
• Strong understanding of electro-mechanical and electrical design concepts
• Significant depth in one or two focus areas of Mechanical Engineering
• Experience driving technological advancement towards future product families

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The company develops aerial small drones and a family of systems powered by Lattice OS.