# Senior DFx Manufacturing Engineer **Company**: Anduril Industries **Location**: Costa Mesa, California **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD **Category**: Manufacturing **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5251236007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c4719683-87a ## 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 Senior DFx Engineer to drive design for manufacturability, assembly, and cost across our avionics, electronics, wiring, and harnessing subsystems. **Responsibilities** - Execute DFx analysis across avionics, electronics, wiring, and harnessing subsystems for AD&S programs, with a primary focus on manufacturability, assembly, and cost. - Participate in and help lead structured DFM/DFA/DFC reviews at key design milestones, applying rigorous scoring to identify producibility and cost risks and drive design changes before they reach production. - Work directly with SME manufacturing engineers and design engineers to evaluate designs, translate manufacturing constraints into actionable feedback, and support design trades that balance performance, producibility, and cost. - Support the selection and qualification of contract manufacturers for avionics, electronics, and harnessing production , assessing supplier manufacturing capability, process maturity, and cost competitiveness against DFx requirements. - Participate in supplier manufacturing assessments including facility reviews, process audits, and capability evaluations. - Contribute to should-cost models and cost-driver analyses for electronics and harnessing assemblies, identifying design changes that reduce unit cost without compromising quality or performance. - 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 key lenses , manufacturability/assembly, cost structure, adherence to specification, process capability, and technology maturity , to contribute to quantified risk assessments that inform engineering and program decisions. - Partner with supply chain to align DFx requirements with sourcing strategy, ensuring that designs are producible by the suppliers we intend to use. - Collaborate with quality engineering to ensure DFx findings flow into inspection plans, acceptance criteria, and supplier quality requirements. - Close the loop between production floor feedback, supplier performance data, and upstream design improvements. - Contribute to the DFx toolkit , templates, scoring rubrics, cost models, lessons-learned databases, and training materials , so that DFx knowledge scales across the organization. - Travel to production sites, contract manufacturers, and supplier facilities (~20%, depending on business needs). **Required Qualifications** - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field. - 8+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, producibility engineering, or DFx with a significant focus on electronics, avionics, wiring, or harnessing , with specialty expertise in at least one of these domains. - Strong working knowledge of electronics and/or harnessing manufacturing processes: SMT placement and reflow, wave and selective soldering, conformal coating, potting and encapsulation, wire harness fabrication (cut/strip/crimp/solder/mold), and electromechanical box-build. - Experience participating in or leading DFM/DFA reviews and translating findings into measurable design improvements that reduce cost and improve producibility. - Experience supporting contract manufacturer evaluations , including facility assessments, process capability reviews, or production readiness evaluations. - Understanding of cost drivers in electronics and harnessing production, with exposure to should-cost modeling or cost analysis. - Ability to read and critically evaluate electrical schematics, PCB layouts, harness drawings, and mechanical packaging for producibility and cost impact. - Working knowledge of IPC standards (IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, IPC-620, IPC-6012) and their application to design, process, and supplier qualification decisions. - Proven ability to work cross-functionally across design engineering, manufacturing engineering, supply chain, quality, and operations. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present DFx and cost findings to engineering teams 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 or harnesses. Hands-on credibility matters. - Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities. **Benefits** At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our 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 - Electrical Engineering - Manufacturing Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Industrial Engineering - DFx - electronics - avionics - wiring - harnessing - SMT placement and reflow - wave and selective soldering - conformal coating - potting and encapsulation - wire harness fabrication - electromechanical box-build - DFM/DFA reviews - cost analysis - should-cost modeling - IPC standards ### Nice to have - Master's degree in engineering or a related field - Specialty expertise in two or more of: avionics, PCBA/electronics, wire harnessing, electrical systems - Experience in aerospace or defense electronics production - 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) - Background in Design of Experiments (DOE), statistical process control, or Six Sigma applied to electronics manufacturing - Experience with value engineering or formal cost reduction programs in a production environment --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5251236007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)