Manufacturing Engineer, Autonomous Airpower

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 TEAM

The Air Dominance and Strike Division is one of Anduril’s fastest growing, most technically complex divisions. We develop and build collaborative combat aircraft, missiles, and the software that powers these autonomous weapons. We are scaling production of autonomous aircraft across our manufacturing facilities. Manufacturing Engineering drives process development, production readiness, and the transition from prototype to rate — ensuring that what Design engineers create can be built reliably, repeatedly, and at scale.

ABOUT THE JOB

Anduril is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to join the Autonomous Airpower manufacturing team in Costa Mesa, California. You will support the manufacturing value chain for autonomous aircraft hardware — helping build the processes, documentation, and production capabilities that take hardware from design to the factory floor. This role spans the full breadth of manufacturing engineering disciplines and may focus on one or more of the following areas depending on your background: structures and composites, mechanical systems (landing gear, doors, actuators), fluid systems (hydraulic, fuel, pneumatic), propulsion integration, avionics, or harnessing and electrical integration.

This is a hands-on role for someone with a few years of manufacturing experience who is ready to take on more responsibility. You will work alongside senior manufacturing engineers, design engineers, and production technicians to build real aircraft hardware and develop the processes that make it repeatable. You will independently modify and improve manufacturing processes, analyze production data to drive decisions, and contribute to process documentation with increasing ownership. If you want to be on the floor as much as at your desk, this is it.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Support the manufacturing value chain for assigned aircraft subsystems or assemblies — contributing to process development, work instruction authoring, and production support
• Independently modify and enhance manufacturing processes to improve efficiency and quality metrics on the production line
• Author and maintain work instructions, quality plans, and inspection documentation with guidance from senior MEs
• Analyze production data to ident

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