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Anduril

Lead Manufacturing Engineer, EagleEye

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senior full-time $147,000-$196,000 USD Costa Mesa, California

First indexed 22 Oct 2026

Description

Anduril's Manufacturing team is seeking a Lead Manufacturing Engineer to join the Eagle Eye Manufacturing Team. The team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defence hardware for the Warfighter.

The right person for this role can demonstrate past holistic ownership on solving a technical challenge with a creative, physical, solution that they either personally manufactured or oversaw manufacturing on, in a fast-paced, resource-limited environment.

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
  • Own a portion or all of the manufacturing value chain for a certain product or set of products
  • Develop novel tooling and fixturing solutions for assembly and test
  • Develop process flows, breaking down large, complex assemblies into a logical part flow of subassemblies and sub-processes
  • Write documentation required for successfully manufacturing hardware at scale, such as work instructions, quality plans, inspection requirements, etc.
  • Contribute to end-customer hardware mechanical or electrical design, including interconnects, board fabrication and inspection, etc.
  • Define workflows with cross-functional teams for effective collaboration
  • Build, Mentor, and Lead a high-performing team of Manufacturing Engineers with various specialties

Required Qualifications

  • Degree in a technical field preferred such as engineering, math, or a hard science
  • 8+ years of experience in a relevant field, preferably manufacturing or design of electromechanical hardware
  • Demonstrated ability to creatively deliver electromechanical hardware in a resource-constrained environment
  • Demonstrated direct team leadership skills, with backing examples
  • Demonstrated ability to bring up assembly operations for electromechanical assemblies
  • Personal experience physically manufacturing hardware via any means (machining, fabrication, soldering, assembly, etc.); work on personal or extracurricular projects is a plus
  • Proficient at CAD and PLM software
  • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities

Preferred Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience with R/C and/or autonomous flight vehicles, flight controllers, or other related control systems
  • Software scripting experience in any language

Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits packages available at little to no cost to employees.

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