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Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Drones

Anduril· Manufacturing : Manufacturing Engineering : Manufacturing Engineering
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Santa Ana, CA$146k - $194kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Manufacturing Engineer role focused on transitioning and scaling UAS products from concept to production, with emphasis on design for manufacturing, sustaining support, capacity planning, and continuous improvement within Anduril's Drones team.

Responsibilities

  • Support the transition of products from concept to prototype, pilot, and full production with speed, flexibility, scalability, and first-time quality.
  • Provide daily sustaining support to ensure each product line performs as intended, including real-time problem-solving related to mechanical fitment issues, electrical and harnessing issues, as well as software and firmware issues.
  • Work with design engineers during the development process to drive design for manufacturing best practices into the design effort, and help facilitate the transition from design to prototype to rate production.
  • Own documentation required for successfully manufacturing products at scale such as MBOM’s, work instructions, process flows, floor plans, time studies, capacity analysis, etc.
  • Collaborate with internal customers and manufacturing planning teams to define capacity planning actions to meet customer needs and expectations.
  • Work hand in hand with the broader production team to solve complex issues to ensure customer demand is met.
  • Analyze metrics for continuous improvement initiatives (cost reduction, QI reduction & capacity increase).
  • Instill a culture of innovation, teamwork, and accountability within the manufacturing engineering product team.
  • Travel to suppliers and partner sites to do initial sourcing work, solve ongoing production issues, and implement process procedures as required.

Qualifications

  • Degree in a technical field such as engineering, math, or a hard science
  • 8+ years in manufacturing or similar 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
  • Personal experience physically manufacturing hardware via any means (machining, fabrication, soldering, assembly, etc.). Work on personal or extracurricular projects is a plus
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:Design for ManufacturingMBOMsCapacity planning

Benefits

  • Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
  • top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: health, recovery, and whatever comes next.
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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