# Senior Manufacturing Engineer, High-Speed Missiles

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Defense

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer on the High-Speed Missiles team, you will be at the absolute bleeding edge of aerospace and defense technology.

Your mission is to bridge the gap between cutting-edge physics and high-rate industrial output.

Responsibilities:

- Own the Production Line: Design, commission, and continuously optimize the assembly lines, work cells, and floor layouts for our hypersonic missile programs.

- Bridge Design and Manufacturing: Collaborate intimately with design engineers during the early development phases to drive Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA).

- Pioneer Advanced Processes: Develop and scale manufacturing processes for exotic materials, advanced composite structures, thermal protection systems (TPS), and high-performance propulsion integration.

- Design Tooling & Equipment: Architect, procure, and qualify custom assembly tooling, fixtures, and automated assembly equipment to increase throughput and quality.

- Drive From Prototype to Rate: Lead the transition of hardware from first-article prototyping through Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) and into mature, high-rate manufacturing.

- Solve Complex Shop-Floor Challenges: Act as the first line of defense for the manufacturing floor, rapidly troubleshooting and resolving complex engineering and production anomalies.

- Author Technical Standards: Create and maintain work instructions, manufacturing bills of materials (MBOMs), routing, and quality documentation.

Requirements:

- Educational Background: B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or a related STEM discipline.

- Proven NPI Track Record: Direct, hands-on experience in at least one of the following capacities: owning a clean-sheet design/New Product Introduction (NPI) product from cradle to grave, owning a complex manufacturing process from cradle to grave across multiple products, or owning a high-impact product from cradle to grave across multiple manufacturing processes.

- Extreme Autonomy & Self-Sufficiency: A proven "drop-in" operator with a strong bias for action.

- Early-Stage DFM/DFA: Strong experience collaborating with design engineering in the earliest phases of development to provide aggressive Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) feedback.

- Production Infrastructure & Tooling Ownership: Proven ability to build a manufacturing footprint from scratch.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Hypersonics Experience: Direct experience working on hypersonic vehicles, scramjets, rocket propulsion, thermal protection systems (TPS), or high-temperature structures/materials.

- Aerospace & Defense Domain Expertise: Experience working on complex aerospace systems, tactical missiles, launch vehicles, satellites, or high-performance automotive platforms.

- High-Rate Scaling: Experience transitioning a highly complex hardware product from low-volume prototyping/LRIP into automated, high-rate manufacturing.

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Industrial Engineering
- Design for Manufacturing
- Design for Assembly

### Nice to have
- Hypersonics
- Scramjets
- Rocket Propulsion
- Thermal Protection Systems
- High-Temperature Structures/Materials
- Aerospace Systems
- Tactical Missiles
- Launch Vehicles
- Satellites
- High-Performance Automotive Platforms

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