# DFx Manufacturing Engineer **Company**: Anduril Industries **Location**: Costa Mesa, California **Experience**: mid **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $129,000-$171,000 USD **Category**: Manufacturing **Industry**: Defense **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5251226007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_70b3f80a-145 ## Description Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Anduril's Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S) Manufacturing Engineering team is seeking a DFx Engineer to support design for manufacturability, assembly, and cost analysis across avionics, electronics, wiring, and harnessing subsystems. **Responsibilities** - Support DFx analysis across avionics, electronics, wiring, and harnessing subsystems for AD&S programs, working under the guidance of Staff and Senior DFx Engineers, with a focus on manufacturability, assembly, and cost. - Participate in structured DFM/DFA/DFC reviews at key design milestones, learning and applying the scoring methodology to identify producibility and cost risks and recommend design changes. - Work with SME manufacturing engineers and design engineers to provide manufacturing and cost feedback on designs, learning to translate constraints into actionable recommendations. - Support the evaluation and qualification of contract manufacturers , participating in facility reviews, process audits, and capability assessments under the guidance of senior team members. - Help build and maintain should-cost models and cost-driver analyses for electronics and harnessing assemblies. - Help develop and maintain DFx standards, guidelines, and scorecards specific to electronics manufacturing processes including SMT, wave/selective solder, conformal coating, potting, wire harness fabrication, and box-build assembly. - Analyze designs across key lenses , manufacturability/assembly, cost structure, adherence to specification, process capability, and technology maturity , contributing to risk assessments that inform engineering and program decisions. - Work with supply chain to understand how DFx requirements connect to sourcing strategy and supplier selection. - Collaborate with quality engineering to understand how DFx findings translate into inspection plans, acceptance criteria, and supplier quality requirements. - Spend time on the production floor and at supplier sites to build firsthand understanding of how electronics and harnesses are manufactured. - Contribute to the DFx toolkit , templates, scoring rubrics, cost models, lessons-learned databases, and training materials. - Travel to production sites, contract manufacturers, and supplier facilities (~20%, depending on business needs). **Required Qualifications** - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field. - 5 years of experience in manufacturing engineering, process engineering, or a related role with exposure to electronics, avionics, wiring, or harnessing. - Foundational knowledge of electronics and/or harnessing manufacturing processes: SMT, soldering, conformal coating, wire harness fabrication, or electromechanical assembly. - Ability to read electrical schematics, PCB layouts, and harness drawings with an eye toward producibility. - Interest in understanding manufacturing cost drivers and how design decisions impact unit cost. - Familiarity with IPC standards (IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, IPC-620) or a willingness to learn and apply them quickly. - Strong communication skills and a willingness to engage directly with design engineers, manufacturing engineers, quality, supply chain, and operations , cross-functional collaboration is the core of this job, not a side task. - Comfort working in a fast-paced environment across multiple programs simultaneously. - A genuine interest in manufacturing and a drive to understand how things are actually built and what they cost to produce. - An attitude of world-class mission assurance, quality, attention to detail, and dedication. - Self-motivated and proactive , you take initiative, ask good questions, and close the loop on what you commit to. - Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities. **Preferred Qualifications** - Master's degree in engineering or a related field. - Internship or co-op experience in aerospace or defense electronics manufacturing. - Exposure to DFM/DFA review processes, producibility engineering, or cost analysis. - Familiarity with AS9100 or similar quality management systems. - Experience visiting or evaluating manufacturing suppliers in any capacity. - Proficiency in ECAD tools (Altium, KiCad, or similar) sufficient to navigate and review designs. - Experience with data analysis, cost modeling, or presentation development. - Appropriate clearance classification. **Benefits** At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. ## Skills ### Required - Electrical Engineering - Manufacturing Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Industrial Engineering - Electronics Manufacturing - SMT - Soldering - Conformal Coating - Wire Harness Fabrication - Electromechanical Assembly - IPC Standards ### Nice to have - Master's degree in engineering - Internship or co-op experience in aerospace or defense electronics manufacturing - DFM/DFA review processes - Producibility engineering - Cost analysis - AS9100 or similar quality management systems - ECAD tools - Data analysis - Cost modeling - Presentation development --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5251226007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)