Andurilindustries
2026 Early Career Manufacturing Engineer
Costa Mesa, California, United States; Irvine, California, United States; Santa Ana, California, United States. Posted 4 months ago
The role
You will bridge the gap between design and high-volume production for advanced Unmanned Aerial Systems. This includes providing sustaining support, driving design for manufacturing, and developing tooling solutions.
What you will do
- Provide daily sustaining support for product lines including mechanical, electrical, software, and firmware issues
- Work with design engineers to drive design for manufacturing best practices
- Facilitate transition from design to prototype to rate production
- Work with the production team to solve complex issues
- Write documentation such as work instructions, quality plans, and inspection requirements
- Develop novel tooling solutions for fabrication and assembly of structural parts
- Contribute to end-customer hardware mechanical or electrical design
- Analyze metrics for continuous improvement initiatives
Required qualifications
- A degree in a technical field such as engineering or manufacturing
- 1+ years of experience in a relevant field, preferably manufacturing or design of electromechanical hardware
- Demonstrated ability to deliver electromechanical hardware in a resource-constrained environment
- Demonstrated in-kind or direct team leadership skills
- Experience physically manufacturing hardware via any means
- A genuine interest in manufacturing, thirst for learning, and high degree of ownership
- U.S. Person status is required
Nice to have
- Experience building successful production operations from scratch
- Harness & PCBA fabrication experience or proven competency in mechanical system design and analysis
- Ownership of a complex bill of materials for an electromechanical product
- Interesting work on personal or extracurricular project
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
Before you apply
- U.S. Person status is required to access export controlled data
- Consent to 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 uses Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system, to power its family of systems.