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Senior Project Engineer, AD&S

Anduril· Air Dominance & Strike : Air Dominance & Strike Engineering : Program Management
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Costa Mesa, CA$146k - $194kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Project Engineer to support Manufacturing Development Plan (MDP) and Product Development Process (PDP) stage gate deliverables across Anduril’s Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S) programs, spanning Air Strike and Air Dominance product lines.Role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, stage gate preparation, and manufacturing readiness from prototype to production.

Responsibilities

  • Support the execution of MDP and PDP stage gate deliverables for manufacturing engineering across AD&S programs, under guidance of Staff Project Engineers to ensure completeness, technical accuracy, and on-time delivery.
  • Coordinate with PPMs, PMs, Chief Engineers, and ME managers to gather, organize, and prepare stage gate review decks and presentations.
  • Track stage gate action items, open risks, and manufacturing readiness gaps — follow up with owners to drive closure ahead of gate reviews.
  • Review ME stage gate content for quality and completeness, flag gaps and work with program teams to address them before reviews.
  • Coordinate across multiple programs with different timelines to ensure teams have information and structure needed to hit gates.
  • Represent Manufacturing Engineering on ad-hoc cross-functional projects, providing ME perspective in design trades, quality investigations, supply chain decisions, and operational problem-solving.
  • Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with design engineering, quality, supply chain, operations, and program management.
  • Drive assigned projects to completion from problem definition through resolution.
  • Identify gaps in stage gate processes and contribute to improvements for scaling programs.
  • Contribute to development and maintenance of stage gate templates, checklists, and standards.
  • Travel to production sites and partner facilities as needed (<10%).

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related field.
  • 7+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering with exposure to product development processes, stage gate reviews, or manufacturing readiness activities.
  • Solid understanding of manufacturing processes and manufacturing maturity across product development phases (prototype through production).
  • Proven ability to work cross-functionally with program management, design engineering, quality, supply chain, and operations.
  • Strong ability to build relationships across functions and drive projects to completion through collaboration.
  • Experience contributing to or preparing technical review presentations for engineering and program leadership.
  • Strong organizational and project management skills with ability to track deliverables across multiple concurrent programs.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for translating manufacturing topics into stage gate content.
  • Self-motivated and proactive with ability to follow through and close loops.
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where processes are being built/refined.
  • Personal experience on the production floor (built, tested, or directly supported hardware manufacturing).
  • Must be a U.S. Person due to access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

Skills

Required:Stage gate managementCross-functional collaborationTechnical presentationManufacturing readinessProject management

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package (health, recovery, and related) available to employees; details at Explore Our Benefits link.
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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