# Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Sentry

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Irvine, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $129,000-$171,000 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.

The Manufacturing Team is seeking a Lead Manufacturing Engineer to lead the manufacturing engineering across Sentry products , larger-scale, vehicle-integrated ground systems.

As the Lead Manufacturing Engineer for Maneuvers, you will build and lead a team of approximately 4–5 manufacturing engineers responsible for the full manufacturing lifecycle of Sentry's vehicle-based and larger integrated ground systems , from System Requirements Review through prototyping, productionization, rate production, and long-term sustainment.

Responsibilities:

- Lead, hire, and develop a team of ~4–5 manufacturing engineers responsible for on-time delivery of development and production units across the Maneuvers portfolio.

- Own the end-to-end manufacturing lifecycle for vehicle-integrated and larger-scale Sentry products , from SRR through prototyping, productionization, rate production, and sustainment.

- Set and execute a portfolio-level manufacturing strategy that flexes between low-rate, high-complexity vehicle integrations and short-integration, high-volume programs.

- Partner with design engineering from earliest concept phases to drive Design for Manufacturability, integration, and serviceability into vehicle-based systems.

- Act as the manufacturing subject matter expert for vehicle-level integration, including mechanical mounting and structures, harnessing and avionics install, powertrain/auxiliary system interfaces, and final assembly and functional checkout.

- Own the documentation stack required to manufacture and sustain vehicle-integrated products at scale.

- Develop differentiated production and test methodologies appropriate to each program's volume profile.

- Establish and lead the sustainment engineering approach for fielded systems.

- Uphold and advise on quality management and business application programs.

- Facilitate make-versus-buy decisions for vehicle platforms, major integrated subsystems, and complex assemblies.

- Collaborate with internal customers and manufacturing planning teams to define capacity, work-center, and floor-space planning actions.

- Analyze metrics for continuous improvement initiatives.

- Instill a culture of innovation, teamwork, and accountability within the manufacturing engineering team.

- Travel to vehicle OEMs, integration partners, suppliers, and field sites as required.

Requirements:

- Degree in a technical field such as engineering, math, or a hard science.

- 6+ years in manufacturing engineering or similar hardware production roles.

- Experience delivering large mechanical assemblies, multi-domain integrated systems, or comparably complex integrated hardware.

- Demonstrated direct team leadership experience.

- Proven experience taking a hardware product from prototype through productionization and rate production.

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

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

- Personal experience physically manufacturing hardware.

- Must be a U.S. Person.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Direct experience in vehicle-based system integration.

- Experience managing a portfolio with mixed production profiles.

- Experience building or transforming successful production operation organizations.

- Experience owning sustainment or in-service engineering for fielded hardware.

- Experience leading and managing teams on fast-paced, complex, cross-functional programs.

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

- Hands-on experience with software & firmware flashing, vehicle-level end-of-line testing, or system-level functional acceptance.

## Skills

### Required
- manufacturing engineering
- hardware production
- team leadership
- mechanical integration
- electrical/avionics install
- vehicle-level assembly

### Nice to have
- vehicle-based system integration
- portfolio management
- production operation organization
- sustainment engineering
- cost analysis

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