# Senior Mechanical Engineer, Omen

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$220,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join the Omen Team at their Costa Mesa HQ. Omen is Anduril's hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle (AAV) that provides runway independence and freedom of maneuver across defense and civilian domains.

The successful candidate will work on new aircraft development in a lean, high-ownership culture where they directly shape the product and operate at a velocity to fly new designs within months, not years.

Key responsibilities include:

- Owning and driving the mechanical design of a new air vehicle, overseeing the process from initial concept to low-rate production

- Leading technical efforts to define requirements, propose possible solutions, and establish a methodology for evaluating and verifying mechanical systems

- Working in close partnership with other disciplines to ensure the electrical, software, and mechanical systems collectively form a reliable, flexible, cost-effective system

- Spearheading design reviews, conducting analysis, visiting vendors, prototyping, and implementing hardware test plans

- Actively contributing to the enhancement of team tools, templates, processes, and standards

- Cultivating a vibrant, positive, dedicated, high-energy, educational, and enjoyable community environment

- Balancing operational needs across vehicle subsystems while optimizing for development speed, mass, manufacturability, and cost

- Supporting critical hardware demonstrations with customers as needed

- Traveling to test sites and vendors as needed

The ideal candidate will have:

- Experience in an immersive technical project (collegiate project teams or professional settings)

- A minimum of 8+ years in a technical engineering role in a professional setting

- Strong technical knowledge in core engineering principles, fundamental mechanics of composite materials, design, analysis, testing, and fabrication

- Deep understanding of load paths, design practices, and hand calculations to design robust structurally efficient assemblies

- Strong proficiency in CAD software (Any platform, but NX preferred) with specific emphasis on complex fixturing and tooling design

- Hands-on experience supporting assembly fixturing and tooling full life-cycle development through design, procurement, build, and implementation

- Expertise with high-performance airframe manufacturing and assembly processes, including composite and metallic part machining, locating, fixturing, fastening, joining, fuel sealing, and integration from piece part to completed airframe

- BS or MS in mechanical engineering, or equivalent work experience

- Demonstrated hands-on fabrication skills

- Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

In terms of compensation, the salary range for this role is $146,000-$220,000 USD. Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, income protection, generous time off, family planning and parenting support, mental health resources, professional development, commuter benefits, relocation assistance, and a retirement savings plan.

## Skills

### Required
- mechanical engineering
- composite materials
- CAD software
- airframe manufacturing
- assembly processes

### Nice to have
- NX/Teamcenter
- clean sheet aircraft configuration
- tooling and manufacturing of composite and metallic airframes and parts
- systems integration during airframe assembly
- metrology verification methods and equipment

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