# Senior Mechanical Engineer, Space

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**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 Space team is dedicated to expanding AI-powered capabilities into space, enhancing Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control for U.S. military and allied partners.

### Responsibilities

- Own hardware design from concept generation to launch, balancing design maturity with program needs.

- Apply first principles to simplify designs and make informed decisions.

- Communicate system architecture pros and cons, focusing on robust design and packaging.

- Lead subsystem design reviews, present status updates, and provide clear timelines and technical status.

- Act as Responsible Engineer for subsystems, running analysis, visiting vendors, and defining hardware test plans.

- Build prototypes, analyze failures, and transition successful designs to flight hardware and low-rate production.

- Travel to test sites and vendors as needed.

- Create high-quality technical documentation, including slide packages, test plans, and assembly instructions.

### Required Qualifications

- BS or higher degree in engineering or a hard science.

- Experience in an immersive hands-on technical project.

- CAD skills and ability to create high-quality engineering drawings.

- Hands-on fabrication and assembly skills.

- Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals: heat transfer, statics, solid mechanics, materials.

- Excellent attention to detail.

- Highly motivated, self-starting, and able to work autonomously.

- Organized and able to establish scope and requirements for complex problems.

- Passion for defending the United States and its allies.

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance.

### Preferred Qualifications

- 7+ years of mechanical design experience in a professional setting with space hardware or equivalent complexity.

- Experience in NX/Teamcenter.

- Experience integrating electronic components into mechanical designs.

- Experience working with optical or RF systems.

- Experience developing code in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, MATLAB, C++).

- Structural or thermal testing experience.

### Benefits

- Competitive salary: $146,000-$194,000 USD per year

- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

- Income protection: life and disability insurance

- Generous time off and caregiver leave

- Family planning and parenting support

- Mental health resources and professional development reimbursement

- Commuter benefits and relocation assistance

- Retirement savings plan

## Skills

### Required
- CAD skills
- engineering fundamentals
- fabrication and assembly skills
- project management
- technical documentation

### Nice to have
- NX/Teamcenter
- Python
- MATLAB
- C++
- optical or RF systems
- structural or thermal testing

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