Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, Hardware Platform, 7+ years of experience

The role

Senior Mechanical Design Engineers will design, test, and scale mission-critical hardware for autonomous air, sea, ground, and strike platforms. Work involves owning components from requirements through volume manufacturing across core technology, lethality, or design for excellence tracks.

What you will do

• Own components and complex mechanical assemblies from requirements to volume manufacturing
• Create high-fidelity 3D models and 2D drawing packages using ASME Y14.5 standards
• Design parts for CNC machining, weldments, sheet metal, injection molding, composite layups, and adhesive bonding
• Apply first-principles engineering and FEA/hand calculations to validate performance
• Perform 1D/3D tolerance stacks, DFMEAs, and tool-access assessments
• Build physical prototypes and author detailed test plans
• Run functional testing including environmental, dynamic, bench-top, or live arena/range tests
• Collaborate with Electrical, Manufacturing, Quality, Safety, and Test teams and external suppliers

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related discipline
• 7+ years of professional mechanical design experience taking physical hardware from initial concept through fabrication and functional test
• High proficiency in parametric 3D CAD (SolidWorks, NX, or Creo)
• High proficiency in modern PLM/PDM environments (e.g., Teamcenter)
• Working knowledge of engineering drawings and practical application of ASME Y14.5 GD&T and tolerance stack-up analysis
• Demonstrated hands-on prototyping and fabrication skills
• Track record of root-causing manufacturing and hardware defects
• Strong foundation in engineering first principles (statics, dynamics, material selection, heat transfer, and structural mechanics)
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance (Secret or Top Secret depending on division)

Nice to have

• Experience with ordnance, warheads, energetic materials, DoD weapons safety boards, high-rate dynamic modeling, or munitions field testing
• Experience designing tightly integrated electromechanical systems (dense PCBA packaging, active/passive thermal management, RF/EMI shielding, harness routing)
• Deep expertise in tooling design, high-volume injection molding, robotic/manual weldment design, structural bonding, or building visual standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• Active U.S. Security Clearance (DoD Secret, Top Secret, or DOE Q)
• Willingness to travel for field/range testing (up to 25% for Lethality workstreams)

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance
• 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's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.