# Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Space Vehicle Integration

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $ Estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors
**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 Space Manufacturing team at Anduril is seeking a Lead Manufacturing Engineer to join their team. The successful candidate will be a technical leader responsible for owning the manufacturing strategy and execution for complex spacecraft hardware.

**Responsibilities**

- Own the vehicle-level build flow for both production vehicle lines

- Define assembly and integration sequence, station and zone content, takt, and work instructions

- Develop and qualify vehicle integration processes

- Drive Design for Manufacturability and Assembly into vehicle-level designs

- Act as a principal stakeholder in deploying Anduril's Manufacturing Development Process (MDP)

- Mature manufacturing readiness artifacts concurrently with design readiness milestones

- Adopt and master the manufacturing execution and product lifecycle toolchain

- Specify and deploy mechanical ground support equipment and tooling

- Partner with Supply Chain and Quality to define, deploy and monitor manufacturing best practices

- Hire, mentor and lead integration engineers

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Aerospace, Mechanical, Manufacturing or Industrial Engineering

- 8+ years of manufacturing engineering experience in aerospace, space, defense or another high-reliability industry

- Personally owned the build flow for at least one vehicle-level or major-assembly integration line

- Hands-on depth in mechanical integration

- Experience with weight and balance or mass properties verification and final close-out operations

- Cleanroom manufacturing experience

- A quantified cycle-time, yield or throughput improvement on an assembly or integration line

- Hands-on fluency with a manufacturing execution system and a PLM system

- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Direct experience integrating satellites, spacecraft or space-based instruments

- Familiarity with space workmanship and process standards

- Stood up an assembly or integration line in a new facility

- Deployed a manufacturing process framework or readiness discipline across an organization

- Took a spacecraft or complex electromechanical product from single-digit annual builds into rate production

- Active Top Secret clearance

## Skills

### Required
- manufacturing engineering
- aerospace
- space
- defense
- mechanical integration
- quality system implementation
- supplier technical management

### Nice to have
- satellite integration
- spacecraft integration
- space workmanship standards
- process framework deployment
- rate production

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