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Senior DFx Manufacturing Engineer, Avionics & Electronics

Anduril· Manufacturing : Manufacturing
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Costa Mesa, CA$146k - $194kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior DFx Engineer focused on design for manufacturability, assembly, and cost across avionics, electronics, wiring, and harnessing for Anduril's Air Dominance & Strike programs, including autonomous aircraft, cruise missiles, and loitering munitions.

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).

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.

Skills

Required:DFx analysisDFM/DFA/DFC reviewsContract manufacturer evaluationCost modelingDFx standards and toolingSchematic/PCB reviewIPC standardsCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package available for full-time employees (health, recovery, and related support) as part of Anduril’s offerings.
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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