Early Career Manufacturing Engineer

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Quincy, MA · Manufacturing : Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike - Production : Manufacturing Engineering

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company building Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). This Manufacturing Engineer role focuses on owning a portion of the manufacturing value chain, including documentation, process development, vendor management, tooling, and hands-on hardware building. The role requires a technical degree, 1+ years of manufacturing/design experience, and the ability to deliver hardware in a resource-constrained environment. Experience with PCBA fabrication and scripting is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own a portion of the manufacturing value chain for a certain product or set of products
  2. Write documentation required for successfully manufacturing hardware at scale, such as work instructions, quality plans, inspection requirements, etc.
  3. Develop process flows, breaking down large complex assemblies into a logical part flow of subassemblies and sub-processes
  4. Work with contract manufacturers across various disciplines (PCBA fab, metallic manufacturing, assembly, etc.) to develop repeatable, sustained processes for quick-turn development as well as at-scale production
  5. Work with technicians and other engineers hands-on building production hardware

Skills

Required

  • Technical degree in engineering or manufacturing
  • 1+ years of experience in manufacturing or design of electromechanical hardware
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver electromechanical hardware in a resource-constrained environment
  • Demonstrated in-kind or direct team leadership skills
  • Experience physically manufacturing hardware via any means (machining, fabrication, soldering, assembly, etc.)
  • Genuine interest in manufacturing and thirst for learning

Nice to have

  • PCBA fabrication experience including prior work with or setup/modification/monitoring SMT processes
  • Hands-on experience with R/C and/or autonomous flight vehicles, flight controllers, or other related control systems
  • Software scripting experience in any language
  • Interesting work on personal or extracurricular project is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data