# Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Avionics

**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 team is seeking a Lead Manufacturing Engineer to join our team. The Propulsion Manufacturing Team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defence hardware for the Core Technologies Platform.

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

- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of Electrical Manufacturing Engineers and Specialists with deep product knowledge in avionics PCBA and harnessing fabrication, propulsion testing, turbomachinery, and system integration.

- Leverage expertise in New Product Introduction (NPI) to seamlessly transition PCBA, harnessing, and integration from prototype to high-volume production, optimising manufacturability and supply chain scalability.

- Be a strong partner with Product Quality Engineering to drive and support RCCA burndowns that tackle key issues both internally and externally to EW Production.

- Collaborate with Design Engineering teams early in the development process to feedback Design For Manufacturability.

- Define workflows with cross-functional teams for effective collaboration.

- Collaborate with Design Engineering teams in early to late phases of the development process to provide DFx for smooth NPI transitions.

- Own a portion or all of the manufacturing value chain for a certain product or set of products.

- Develop process flows, breaking down large, complex assemblies into a logical part flow of subassemblies and sub-processes.

- Contribute to end-customer hardware mechanical or electrical design, including interconnects, board fabrication and inspection, etc.

### 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 avionics or electrical systems.

- Demonstrated ability to creatively deliver avionics hardware in a resource-constrained environment.

- Demonstrated in-kind or direct team leadership skills, with backing examples.

- An attitude of world-class mission assurance, quality, attention to detail, and dedication.

- A genuine interest in manufacturing and thirst for learning.

- Demonstrated ability to bring up assembly operations for electrical 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 ERP, CAD, PLM, and FRACAS software.

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

### Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with Avionics or Propulsion Products that require system AI&T (assembly, integration, and test).

- Hands-on experience with software & firmware flashing or end-of-line testing & troubleshooting.

- Demonstrated success in scaling product testing and production from tens/hundreds to hundreds/thousands.

- Skills in cost analysis, cost reduction strategies, and managing production budgets.

- Software scripting experience in any language.

### Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits packages.

## Skills

### Required
- New Product Introduction (NPI)
- Design For Manufacturability
- ERP
- CAD
- PLM
- FRACAS
- Avionics hardware
- Electrical systems
- Manufacturing
- Team leadership

### Nice to have
- Avionics or Propulsion Products
- System AI&T
- Software & firmware flashing
- End-of-line testing & troubleshooting
- Cost analysis
- Cost reduction strategies
- Managing production budgets
- Software scripting

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