DFx Manufacturing Engineer - Avionics & Harnessing

Hardware FYI; Costa Mesa (CA); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a DFx Engineer to support design for manufacturability, assembly, and cost analyses across avionics, electronics, wiring, and harnessing subsystems. You will work with staff and senior DFx engineers to evaluate producibility and cost, interfacing with design and manufacturing teams, supply chain, and quality.

Expect hands-on factory exposure and supplier assessments. You will travel to production sites and contract manufacturers to match capabilities with production

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience in manufacturing engineering, process engineering, or a related role with exposure to electronics, avionics, wiring, or harnessing.
• Foundational knowledge of electronics and/or harnessing manufacturing processes: SMT, soldering, conformal coating, wire harness fabrication, or electromechanical assembly.
• Ability to read electrical schematics, PCB layouts, and harness drawings with an eye toward producibility.
• Interest in understanding manufacturing cost drivers and how design decisions impact unit cost.
• Familiarity with IPC standards (IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, IPC-620) or a willingness to learn and apply them quickly.
• Strong communication skills and a willingness to engage directly with design engineers, manufacturing engineers, quality, supply chain, and operations — cross-functional collaboration is the core of this job, not a side task.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment across multiple programs simultaneously.
• A genuine interest in manufacturing and a drive to understand how things are actually built and what they cost to produce. Personal experience physically building or working on hardware (soldering, harness build, assembly, personal projects) is a strong plus.
• An attitude of world-class mission assurance, quality, attention to detail, and dedication.
• Self-motivated and proactive — you take initiative, ask good questions, and close the loop on what you commit to.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

Responsibilities

• Support DFx analysis across avionics, electronics, wiring, and harnessing subsystems for AD&S programs, focusing on manufacturability, assembly, and cost.
• Participate in structured DFM/DFA/DFC reviews at key design milestones, applying scoring to identify producibility and cost risks and recommend design changes.
• Provide manufacturing and cost feedback on designs, translating constraints into actionable recommendations.
• Evaluate and qualify contract manufacturers—facilities reviews, process audits, and capability assessments.
• Build and maintain should-cost models and cost-driver analyses for electronics and harnessing assemblies.
• Develop and maintain DFx standards, guidelines, and scorecards for electronics manufacturing processes.
• Analyze designs across manufacturability, cost structure, specs adherence, and process capability.
• Collaborate with supply chain to connect DFx to sourcing strategy and supplier selection.
• Work with quality engineering to translate DFx findings into inspection plans and supplier quality requirements.
• Spend time on production floor and supplier sites to understand how electronics and harnesses are manufactured.
• Contribute to the DFx toolkit—templates, scoring rubrics, cost models, databases, and training materials.
• Travel to production sites, contract manufacturers, and supplier facilities (~20%).

Skills

DFx analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Electrical schematics

Cost analysis

Manufacturing engineering

Education

Bachelors in Engineering

Tools

Altium

KiCad

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a DFx Engineer to support design for manufacturability, assembly, and cost analyses across avionics, electronics, wiring, and harnessing subsystems. You will work with staff and senior DFx engineers to evaluate producibility and cost, interfacing with design and manufacturing teams, supply chain, and quality.

Expect hands-on factory exposure and supplier assessments. You will travel to production sites and contract manufacturers to match capabilities with production