# Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Missiles

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California, United States
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer on Missiles, you will play a key role in shaping the manufacturing design for Anduril's Missile division. Your core responsibilities include ensuring the highest production quality and supporting the development and implementation of new products for several program designs.

The role encompasses the entire manufacturing value chain, including Design for Manufacturability, tool design and selection, process creation and optimisation, vendor sourcing and collaboration, quality planning, and documentation for hardware production.

Key responsibilities include:

- Executing the manufacturing of a certain product or set of products, from initial prototyping through large full-scale production.

- Working with design engineers during the development process to drive design for manufacturing best practices into the design effort, and helping facilitate the transition from design to prototype to rate production.

- Acting as a manufacturing liaison for mechanical fabrication and avionics with subject matter expertise in these areas and key experience in design for manufacturability.

- Owning documentation required for successfully manufacturing product group hardware at scale, such as MBOMs, work instructions & requirements, etc.

- Advising on quality management and business application programs as they pertain to manufacturing within your area.

- Collaborating with internal customers and manufacturing planning teams to define capacity planning actions to meet customer needs and expectations.

- Analysing metrics for continuous improvement initiatives (cost reduction, QI reduction & capacity increase).

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

- Developing production and test methodologies and implementing best practices to enable scaling production capabilities for larger, more complex products.

- Travelling to suppliers and partner sites to do initial sourcing work, solve ongoing production issues, and implement process procedures as required.

## Skills

### Required
- Degree in a technical field such as engineering, math, or a hard science
- 8+ years in manufacturing or similar prototyping position
- An attitude of world-class mission assurance, quality, attention to detail, and dedication
- A genuine interest in manufacturing and thirst for learning
- Demonstrated ability to creatively deliver hardware in a resource-constrained environment

### Nice to have
- Experience building or transforming successful production operation organisations and leading large-scale change management initiatives
- Harness & PCBA fabrication experience including prior work with or setup/modification/monitoring SMT processes
- Hands-on experience with R/C and/or autonomous flight vehicles, flight controllers, or other related control systems

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