Staff DFx Manufacturing Engineer, Avionics & Electronics

The role

You will drive design-for-manufacturability, assembly, and testability for avionics, electronics, and harnessing subsystems. You will act as a technical authority for DFx across autonomous aircraft, cruise missiles, and loitering munitions. This role involves embedding with design teams and mentoring manufacturing engineers.

What you will do

• Own and drive the DFx process for avionics, electronics, and harnessing subsystems.
• Lead structured DFM/DFA/DFT reviews at key design milestones.
• Embed with electrical and avionics design engineering teams to provide real-time manufacturing feedback.
• Work cross-functionally with supply chain, quality, operations, and design engineering.
• Develop and maintain DFx standards, guidelines, and scorecards.
• Analyze designs across manufacturability, quality, specification, process capability, and technology maturity.
• Champion testability early in the design cycle.
• Partner with quality engineering to ensure DFx findings flow into inspection plans.
• Collaborate with supply chain and sourcing teams to assess supplier manufacturing capability.
• Close the loop between production floor feedback and upstream design improvements.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field, OR equivalent full-time, relevant industry experience.
• 12+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, process engineering, or producibility engineering with a significant focus on electronics, avionics, or electromechanical assemblies.
• Master’s Degree can replace 2 years of work experience.
• Deep working knowledge of electronics manufacturing processes: SMT placement and reflow, wave and selective soldering, conformal coating, potting and encapsulation, cable and harness fabrication, and
• Demonstrated experience leading DFM/DFA/DFT reviews and translating findings into measurable design improvements.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally across design engineering, supply chain, quality, and operations.
• Ability to read and critically evaluate electrical schematics, PCB layouts, harness drawings, and mechanical packaging for producibility.
• Strong command of IPC standards (IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, IPC-620, IPC-6012).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work across multiple programs simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Personal experience physically building or reworking electronic assemblies (soldering, harness build, test, debug).
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in engineering or a related field.
• Experience in aerospace or defense electronics production, particularly with qualified or flight-critical hardware.
• Familiarity with AS9100/AS9102 quality management systems and First Article Inspection processes.
• Experience with PCBA insourcing or standing up electronics manufacturing lines (SMT, test, integration).
• Proficiency in ECAD tools (Altium, KiCad, or similar) sufficient to review designs independently.
• Background in Design of Experiments (DOE), statistical process control, or Six Sigma applied to electronics manufacturing.
• Experience developing automated or semi-automated test solutions for production electronics.

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.