# Staff Mechanical Engineer, Manufacturing Automation

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,000-$220,000 USD
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

Anduril's Manufacturing Automation team is seeking a Staff Mechanical Engineer to join our team. The Manufacturing Automation team is responsible for the design, integration, and deployment of automated manufacturing systems across Anduril factories.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead the mechanical design of automated manufacturing equipment, from initial concept through commissioning and handover

- Develop system-level designs, simulations, and engineering studies to de-risk concepts and fully define overall equipment requirements

- Perform simulations for robotic systems and equipment, including reach studies and system architecture development

- Design, build, and integrate fixtures and assembly tooling for automation applications

- Design, build, and integrate EOAT for industrial robots / cobots

- Design equipment utilizing mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic power systems

- Design and integrate safety guarding, light curtains, interlocks, and other safety-related mechanical components

- Create detailed 3D models, 2D manufacturing drawings, and BOMs

- Select appropriate mechanical components, including bearings, linear motion systems, actuators, gearboxes, fasteners, etc.

- Perform mechanical analysis, including stress, strain, and thermal analysis

- Oversee prototype fabrication, assembly, and testing of mechanical designs

- Troubleshoot and resolve mechanical issues during design, commissioning, and production rollout

- Collaborate with electrical engineers, controls engineers, and robotics engineers to ensure seamless integration of mechanical systems

- Set mechanical design standards and best practices across the team

- Lead mechanical design across multiple concurrent programs and mentor and develop engineers

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or similar field

- 12+ years of experience in mechanical design, with a significant focus on automation, machinery, or robotics

- Strong 3D CAD capability in NX

- Proficient 2D CAD capability in AutoCAD

- Strong understanding of mechanical components commonly used in automation, such as linear actuators, rotary actuators, servo motors, VFDs, gears, bearings, pneumatics, etc.

- Experience with fabrication processes including machining, welding, sheet metal fabrication, and additive manufacturing

- Expert ability to perform mechanical calculations (statics, dynamics, material selection, etc.)

- Extensive experience performing FEA, motion studies, and system-level simulations to de-risk designs

- Track record of owning end-to-end equipment development and implementation

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

**Preferred Qualifications**

- 15+ years of experience in mechanical design, with a significant focus on automation, machinery, or robotics

- Strong ability to perform mechanical calculations (statics, dynamics, material selection, etc.)

- Experience performing FEA

- Strong 2D CAD capability in AutoCAD

- Experience with motion studies, tolerance stack-ups, and design simulation

- Experience designing and fabricating tooling such as mandrels, jigs, and fixtures

**Benefits** Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) to support health, recovery, and well-being.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Automation
- Robotics
- 3D CAD
- NX
- AutoCAD
- Mechanical design
- FEA
- Motion studies

### Nice to have
- 15+ years of experience in mechanical design
- Experience performing FEA
- Strong 2D CAD capability in AutoCAD
- Experience with motion studies
- Experience designing and fabricating tooling

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