Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Space Vehicle Integration

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