# Staff DFx Manufacturing Engineer **Company**: Anduril Industries **Location**: Costa Mesa, California **Experience**: staff **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $166,000-$220,000 USD **Category**: Manufacturing **Industry**: Defense Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5254684007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_b29d2231-027 ## Description Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Anduril's Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S) Manufacturing Engineering team is seeking a Staff DFx Manufacturing Engineer to drive design-for-manufacturability, assembly, and testability across avionics, electronics, and harnessing subsystems. As a Staff-level individual contributor, you will be the technical authority on DFx for electronics and avionics across AD&S. **Responsibilities** - Own and drive the DFx process for avionics, electronics, and harnessing subsystems across AD&S programs, from concept through rate production. - Lead structured DFM/DFA/DFT reviews at key design milestones, applying a rigorous scoring methodology to identify producibility risks and drive design changes before they become production problems. - Embed with electrical and avionics design engineering teams to provide real-time manufacturing feedback on PCBA layout, component selection, connector and harnessing architecture, and test access. - Work cross-functionally with supply chain, quality, operations, and design engineering on a daily basis , this role is the connective tissue between what gets designed and what gets built. - Develop and maintain DFx standards, guidelines, and scorecards specific to electronics manufacturing processes including SMT, wave/selective solder, conformal coating, potting, wire harness fabrication, and box-build assembly. - Analyze designs across five key lenses , manufacturability/assembly, quality, adherence to specification, process capability, and technology maturity , to produce quantified risk assessments that inform engineering and program decisions. - Champion testability early in the design cycle: define test point access, boundary scan requirements, functional test strategies, and fixtures needed for production-rate acceptance testing. - Partner with quality engineering to ensure DFx findings flow into inspection plans, acceptance criteria, and process control strategies. - Collaborate with supply chain and sourcing teams to assess supplier manufacturing capability, support make-vs-buy decisions, and ensure external production meets DFx requirements. - Close the loop between production floor feedback and upstream design improvements by working directly with operations and production engineering teams. - Build and evolve the DFx toolkit , templates, scoring rubrics, lessons-learned databases, and training materials , so that DFx knowledge scales beyond any single person. - Mentor and develop junior and mid-level manufacturing engineers on DFx principles and review techniques. - Travel to production sites, suppliers, and partner facilities as needed. **Requirements** - Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field. - 12+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, process engineering, or producibility engineering with a significant focus on electronics, avionics, or electromechanical assemblies. - Deep working knowledge of electronics manufacturing processes: SMT placement and reflow, wave and selective soldering, conformal coating, potting and encapsulation, cable and harness fabrication, and electromechanical box-build. - Demonstrated experience leading DFM/DFA/DFT reviews and translating findings into measurable design improvements. - Proven ability to work cross-functionally across design engineering, supply chain, quality, and operations , and to be effective without positional authority. - Ability to read and critically evaluate electrical schematics, PCB layouts, harness drawings, and mechanical packaging for producibility. - Strong command of IPC standards (IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, IPC-620, IPC-6012) and their application to design and process decisions. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present DFx findings to engineering leadership and drive alignment on design changes. - Comfortable working across multiple programs simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. - Personal experience physically building or reworking electronic assemblies (soldering, harness build, test, debug). - Hands-on credibility matters. - Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities. **Preferred Qualifications** - Master’s degree in engineering or a related field. - Experience in aerospace or defense electronics production, particularly with qualified or flight-critical hardware. - Familiarity with AS9100/AS9102 quality management systems and First Article Inspection processes. - Experience with PCBA insourcing or standing up electronics manufacturing lines (SMT, test, integration). - Proficiency in ECAD tools (Altium, KiCad, or similar) sufficient to review designs independently. - Background in Design of Experiments (DOE), statistical process control, or Six Sigma applied to electronics manufacturing. - Experience developing automated or semi-automated test solutions for production electronics. - Appropriate clearance classification. **Salary** $166,000-$220,000 USD **Benefits** Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. ## Skills ### Required - DFx - Manufacturing Engineering - Electronics Manufacturing - Avionics - Electrical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Industrial Engineering - SMT - Wave Soldering - Conformal Coating - Potting - Cable Harness Fabrication - Electromechanical Box-Build - IPC Standards - Communication Skills ### Nice to have - Master’s degree in engineering - Aerospace or defense electronics production - AS9100/AS9102 quality management systems - PCBA insourcing - ECAD tools - Design of Experiments - Statistical Process Control - Six Sigma --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5254684007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)