Manufacturing Engineer, Automation & Tooling, Space

The posting, as Anduril wrote it

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Anduril’s Space Manufacturing team is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer for Automation & Tooling to join our team. Your expertise will help ensure that our products meet the highest standards of quality and reliability at Anduril.

As the Manufacturing Engineer for Automation & Tooling, you will design and deliver the mechanical ground support equipment (MGSE), tooling and fixtures that our production lines are built around. Your responsibilities span the full tooling lifecycle, including design and structural analysis, specification and procurement against the facility schedule, qualification and proof load testing, semi-automated station design, and tooling sustainment. You are the specialist serving our cluster leads for Space Vehicle Integration, Sensors & Avionics, and Propulsion & Energetics — they define what they need to build, and you design the hardware that lets them build it. Our new world-class production facility, and the tooling and integration support equipment within it, must lead procurement and production by twelve to eighteen months; the decisions that determine whether the factory works are being made now .

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design mechanical ground support equipment and production tooling in CAD through to released drawings — handling, lift, rotation and transport fixtures, integration stands, and alignment and torque tooling.
• Own the tooling and MGSE procurement runway against the facility schedule — tooling list, long-lead items, specifications, vendor packages and delivery dates. Tooling that arrives after the station it serves is a schedule failure.
• Qualify tooling and MGSE before it touches flight hardware — load path analysis, proof load testing, lift certification, fit checks and first-article use — and own the records that make that qualification auditable.
• Design tooling and MGSE for cleanroom compatibility — material, coating, lubricant and surface-finish selection, and mechanical features that prevent particle generation and FOD. Design contamination out rather than relying on housekeeping to contain it.
• Design and deploy semi-automated assembly stations and mechanical automation where it removes touch labor or variability, with a defensible case for why automation is th

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