# Senior Automation Engineer, Manufacturing Automation

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

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## Description

Anduril's Manufacturing Automation team is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to join our team. The Manufacturing Automation team is responsible for the design, integration, and deployment of automated manufacturing systems across Anduril factories.

As a member of this team, you will have the opportunity to help define what production automation looks like for Anduril at a national scale.

**Responsibilities**

- Own controls systems end-to-end as technical system owner , architecture, PLC/HMI development, commissioning, proof of rate, and sustainment handoff

- Deploy and maintain OT server infrastructure including MQTT brokers, and jump hosts with disciplined backup and change-control practices

- Design and maintain OT networking stack for production (MQTT, OPC UA, TCP/IP) and diagnose protocol, timing, and VLAN segmentation issues using packet-level analysis

- Architect, develop, and debug PLC code on Allen-Bradley and/or Siemens platforms, producing structured, documented code suitable for high-volume manufacturing

- Apply defense-grade OT security practices , air-gapped design, IEC 62443/NIST 800-82 segmentation, Purdue-model layering, server hardening, and secure remote access

- Partner with IT, Security, FactoryOS, and Manufacturing Engineering on cross-functional initiatives and represent controls team in design reviews and cybersecurity buy-offs

- Rj45 wiring, configure switches, automating system backups, IT and OT

- FWs configs, AWS EC2s

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Information Technology, or related field

- 6+ years of experience in controls and automation in a production environment

- Strong in PLC programming on Allen-Bradley and/or Siemens platforms

- Proficient in OPC UA, MQTT Engine/Distributor/Transmission)

- Proficient across the OT stack , MQTT, OPC UA, TCP/IP, industrial Ethernet, VLANs, switching/routing , with fluency in packet-level analysis

- Working knowledge of OT cybersecurity , air-gapped networks, network segmentation, server hardening, secure remote access

- Experience integrating with MES and QMS

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

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience in regulated or defense manufacturing environments (ITAR/EAR-controlled, CMMC, or FDA/aerospace quality systems)

- Experience integrating controls systems with MES and QMS platforms

- Experience with servo drives, VFDs, PID tuning, and functional-safety implementations

- Experience deploying Ignition in redundant/high-availability gateway topologies

- Familiar with control panel layout, electrical component selection, and cable routing

**Benefits**

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including a comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) that ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

## Skills

### Required
- PLC programming
- OT security
- MQTT
- OPC UA
- TCP/IP
- industrial Ethernet
- VLANs
- switching/routing
- packet-level analysis
- MES integration
- QMS integration
- Allen-Bradley
- Siemens

### Nice to have
- regulated or defense manufacturing environments
- servo drives
- VFDs
- PID tuning
- functional-safety implementations
- Ignition deployment

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