Senior Industrial Engineer, Simulation

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

The Manufacturing Team is seeking a Senior Industrial Engineer to own and scale our manufacturing simulation capability.

The right person thrives in a fast-paced, resource-limited environment, is flexible to change and ambiguity, and can act as the connective tissue among operational stakeholders to bring a production system forward.

Responsibilities:

• Own Anduril's discrete event simulation and operations-research capability for manufacturing as a long-lived, foundational asset
• Capture current and planned processes into validated digital twins
• Design the data pipeline that keeps models current
• Select and apply the right method for the question
• Lead the highest-stakes simulation studies
• Own the design of new production lines and workstation layouts
• Proactively identify high-variation processes, imbalances, and bottlenecks
• Turn simulation output into decisions
• Establish the standards for validation, version control, and assumption tracking
• Make models digestible to non-specialists
• Drive the migration of legacy planning tools
• Establish how the team leverages AI to move faster without sacrificing rigor
• Mentor other engineers and raise the bar for simulation and operations-research practice

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience building simulation and/or operations-research models
• Deep, hands-on expertise with discrete event simulation software
• Working command of complementary analytical methods
• Strong programming ability (Python, SQL)
• Ability to read technical documentation
• A track record of building analytical tools that others actually used and maintained
• Ability to work in ambiguity and communicate uncertainty

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field
• Experience standing up a centralized modeling or analytics capability from scratch
• Prior work designing and/or setting up new production lines or factories
• Experience in high-mix / complex manufacturing, production ramp, or capacity-planning environments
• Experience integrating models with enterprise data platforms and systems