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Senior/Staff Tooling Engineer

Anduril· Manufacturing : Heavy Metal - Production : Manufacturing Engineering
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Santa Ana, CA$146k - $220kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior/Staff Tooling and Equipment Design Engineer to develop tooling, equipment, and layouts to support maritime manufacturing processes and digital twins for new production facilities. Collaborates across engineering, facilities, and external vendors to deliver innovative, scalable production system designs.

Responsibilities

  • Design tooling and equipment that integrates with factory manufacturing equipment, NC machinery, and robotic welding equipment to enable processing systems for supporting factory development and the future production system.
  • Utilize computer aided design, simulation, and computer graphics to enable lean manufacturing principles, integrated metrology and visual management, including technologies, tools and processes to improve production flow while enhancing product performance, space allocation and resource requirements across programs and products.
  • Support tooling and equipment integration, commissioning, and certification in prototype and production development
  • Develop, review, and validate tooling and equipment concepts to meet performance requirements
  • Team with manufacturing technology, facilities, and suppliers to create, source, and assess potential equipment and tooling to solve for production needs
  • Be on the floor communicating and integrating with fellow engineers and manufacturing personnel to perpetuate a cohesive mission-oriented culture
  • Drive collaboration with manufacturing technology, product design, manufacturing engineering, operations, facilities and construction, environmental safety & health, and finance to deliver creative and effective production system designs, as well as external vendors supporting the design, construction, and commissioning of new facilities

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience as a designer and developer of tooling, equipment and processes for manufacturing technology development, simulation modeling, digital thread development and/or production/process engineering
  • Technology development and implementation experience in equipment and tooling for large scale manufacturing
  • Ability to work hands-on in a manufacturing environment, next to operations and manufacturing engineering to understand and optimize the production system
  • Ability to travel up to 50% of the time
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:Tooling and equipment designCAD, simulation, and graphicsFabrication integrationCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:Lean manufacturing & process improvement

Benefits

  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees (health, recovery, and other support)
  • Competitive base salary with equity grants included in majority of full-time offers
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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