# Senior DFx Engineer, Mechanical & Fluid Systems **Company**: Anduril Industries **Location**: Costa Mesa, California **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD **Category**: Manufacturing **Industry**: Defense **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5241710007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_7d419cb6-5a0 ## 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 Senior DFx Engineer to drive design for manufacturability, assembly, and cost across mechanical, structural, thermal management, and fluid systems subsystems. **Responsibilities** - Execute DFx analysis across mechanical, structural, thermal, and fluid systems subsystems for AD&S programs, with a primary focus on manufacturability, assembly, and cost. - Participate in and help lead structured DFM/DFA/DFC reviews at key design milestones, applying rigorous scoring to identify producibility and cost risks and drive design changes before they reach production. - Participate in and help lead/facilitate DFMEAs with cross-functional teams. - Work directly with SME manufacturing engineers and design engineers to evaluate designs, translate manufacturing constraints into actionable feedback, and support design trades that balance performance, producibility, and cost. - Support the selection and qualification of contract manufacturers for machined components, fabrications, composite structures, thermal hardware, and fluid system assemblies. - Participate in supplier manufacturing assessments including facility reviews, process audits, and capability evaluations. - Contribute to should-cost models and cost-driver analyses for mechanical and fluid system assemblies, identifying design changes that reduce unit cost without compromising quality or performance. - Develop and maintain DFx standards, guidelines, and scorecards specific to mechanical manufacturing processes. - Analyze designs across key lenses , manufacturability/assembly, cost structure, adherence to specification, process capability, and technology maturity , to contribute to quantified risk assessments that inform engineering and program decisions. - Evaluate thermal management and fluid system designs for producibility. - Partner with supply chain to align DFx requirements with sourcing strategy, ensuring that designs are producible by the suppliers we intend to use. - Collaborate with quality engineering to ensure DFx findings flow into inspection plans, acceptance criteria, and supplier quality requirements. - Close the loop between production floor feedback, supplier performance data, and upstream design improvements. - Contribute to the DFx toolkit. - Travel to production sites, contract manufacturers, and supplier facilities (~20%, depending on business needs). **Required Qualifications** - Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field. - 8+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, producibility engineering, or DFx with a significant focus on mechanical systems, thermal management, or fluid systems. - Strong working knowledge of mechanical manufacturing processes. - Experience participating in or leading DFM/DFA reviews and translating findings into measurable design improvements. - Experience supporting contract manufacturer evaluations. - Understanding of cost drivers in mechanical and fluid system production. - Ability to read and critically evaluate mechanical drawings, GD&T, 3D models, and assembly documentation. - Working knowledge of relevant standards and specifications for aerospace mechanical and fluid systems. - Proven ability to work cross-functionally. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. - Comfortable working across multiple programs simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. - Personal experience in a machine shop, fabrication shop, or on a production floor working with mechanical hardware. - Must be a U.S. Person. **Preferred Qualifications** - Master's degree in engineering or a related field. - Specialty expertise in two or more of: mechanical structures, thermal/heat transfer systems, fuel systems, hydraulic systems. - Experience in aerospace or defense mechanical production. - Familiarity with AS9100/AS9102 quality management systems. - Experience with composite manufacturing. - Proficiency in CAD software. - Background in Design of Experiments (DOE), statistical process control, or Six Sigma. - Experience with value engineering or formal cost reduction programs. - Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance with Full-Scope Polygraph. ## Skills ### Required - Mechanical Engineering - Manufacturing Engineering - DFx - Thermal Management - Fluid Systems - CNC machining - Sheet metal fabrication - Welding - Brazing - Composite layup and bonding - Mechanical assembly ### Nice to have - Master's degree in engineering - Specialty expertise in mechanical structures - Thermal/heat transfer systems - Fuel systems - Hydraulic systems - AS9100/AS9102 quality management systems - Composite manufacturing - CAD software - Design of Experiments (DOE) - Statistical process control - Six Sigma - Value engineering - Formal cost reduction programs - U.S. Secret security clearance --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5241710007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)