DFx Manufacturing Engineer - Avionics & Harnessing

Telemetry Today LLC; Costa Mesa (CA); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a DFx Engineer to advance design for manufacturability, assembly, and cost across avionics, electronics, wiring, and harnesses. You will work with ME/DE teams and suppliers to improve producibility and unit cost while supporting contract manufacturers and cost models.

You will travel to production sites and supplier facilities to evaluate capabilities, contribute to DFx standards, and build should-cost analyses for electronic assemblies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related engineering field.
• 5 years in manufacturing/process engineering with electronics experience.
• Familiarity with IPC standards (IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, IPC-620).
• Ability to read electrical schematics, PCB layouts, and harness drawings.

Responsibilities

• Perform DFx analysis across avionics, electronics, wiring, and harnessing with focus on manufacturability, assembly, and cost.
• Participate in DFM/DFx reviews at design milestones and assess producibility and cost risks.
• Collaborate with design, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and operations to translate constraints into actionable design changes.
• Support contract manufacturer evaluation, qualification, and facility/process assessments.
• Develop and maintain DFx standards, templates, cost models, and DFx scoring rubrics.
• Travel to production sites and supplier facilities as needed (approx. 20%).

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Read schematics/PCB/harness drawings

Communication skills

Producibility orientation

Self-motivated/self-starter

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Manufacturing/Mechanical/Industrial Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

ECAD tools (Altium, KiCad)

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks a DFx Engineer to advance design for manufacturability, assembly, and cost across avionics, electronics, wiring, and harnesses. You will work with ME/DE teams and suppliers to improve producibility and unit cost while supporting contract manufacturers and cost models.

You will travel to production sites and supplier facilities to evaluate capabilities, contribute to DFx standards, and build should-cost analyses for electronic assemblies.