# Senior Manufacturing Engineer, PCBA, Barracuda

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California, United States
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril's Barracuda Manufacturing team is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer focusing on PCBA. As a PCBA Senior Manufacturing Engineer, you will own PCBAs and avionics used on the program and work closely with cross-functional groups to support production.

The right person for this role has experience reviewing PCBA technical drawings, assembling PCBAs, troubleshooting board issues, and implementing quality control standards. The right person for the team demonstrates past holistic ownership on solving a technical challenge with a creative, physical, solution that they either personally manufactured or oversaw manufacturing in a fast-paced, resource-limited environment.

If you are someone who thrives in such an environment, brings personality to the team, is a hard worker, and ready to make an explosive impact, then this role is for you.

Responsibilities:

- Leverage expertise in New Product Introduction (NPI) to seamlessly transition electromechanical products from prototype to high-volume production, optimising manufacturability and supply chain scalability

- Collaborate with Design Engineering teams early in the development process to feedback Design For Manufacturability

- Develop and maintain PCBA workmanship standards, process parameters, and design rules aligned to evolving product and technology roadmaps

- Establish scalable DFM frameworks that enable consistent execution across multiple products, sites, and manufacturing partners

- Lead technical verification of quick turn and volume PCBA vendor capabilities, including SMT, advanced packaging, underfill, edge bond, and specialty processes

- Ensure ongoing compliance with approved manufacturing processes, materials, and quality targets at subcontractors

- Mentor and lead a high-performing team of PCBA DFM engineers and technical leads

Required Qualifications:

- Degree in a technical field preferred such as engineering, math, or a hard science

- 8+ years of experience in a relevant field, manufacturing or design in PCBA and SMT processes, advanced packaging

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

- Demonstrated in-kind or direct team cooperation 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

- Willingness to travel occasionally

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with Altium software

- Experience with IPC-610 and J-STD-001 standards

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

- Software scripting experience in any language

- Strong background in material science, electronics packaging and reliability engineering

- Current active U.S. Secret security clearance

Salary Range: $146,000-$194,000 USD

Experience Level: senior

Employment Type: full-time

Workplace Type: onsite

Category: Engineering

Industry: Technology

Salary Range: $146,000-$194,000 USD

Salary Min: 146000

Salary Max: 194000

Salary Currency: USD

Salary Period: year

Required Skills:

- PCBA

- SMT

- Advanced packaging

- Underfill

- Edge bond

- Specialty processes

- Design for manufacturability

- New product introduction

- Supply chain scalability

- Manufacturing processes

- Quality targets

- Technical verification

- Mentorship

- Leadership

Preferred Skills:

- Altium software

- IPC-610 and J-STD-001 standards

- R/C and/or autonomous flight vehicles

- Flight controllers

- Control systems

- Material science

- Electronics packaging

- Reliability engineering

## Skills

### Required
- PCBA
- SMT
- Advanced packaging
- Underfill
- Edge bond
- Specialty processes
- Design for manufacturability
- New product introduction
- Supply chain scalability
- Manufacturing processes
- Quality targets
- Technical verification
- Mentorship
- Leadership

### Nice to have
- Altium software
- IPC-610 and J-STD-001 standards
- R/C and/or autonomous flight vehicles
- Flight controllers
- Control systems
- Material science
- Electronics packaging
- Reliability engineering

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