DFx Manufacturing Engineer - Avionics & Harnessing

XYZ Venture Capital; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Equity grants

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a DFx Engineer within the AD&S Manufacturing Engineering team to advance design-for-manufacturability efforts across avionics, electronics, wiring, and harnessing. You will evaluate designs for producibility, cost, and supplier fit, and contribute to process improvements and DFx tooling.

You will collaborate with supply chain, quality, operations, ME and DE, travel ~20% to supplier facilities, and help build cost models supporting cost and schedule decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field.
• 5 years of experience in manufacturing engineering, process engineering, or related role.
• Knowledge of electronics/harnessing manufacturing processes (SMT, soldering, conformal coating, wire harness fabrication).
• Ability to read schematics, PCBs, harness drawings for producibility.
• Familiarity with IPC standards (IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, IPC-620).
• Cross-functional collaboration across design, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Support DFx analysis across avionics, electronics, wiring, and harnessing subsystems.
• Participate in DFM/DFA/DFC reviews at key milestones.
• Provide manufacturing and cost feedback to designs.
• Evaluate contract manufacturers and participate in facility reviews.
• Build and maintain should-cost models and cost-driver analyses.
• Develop DFx standards, guidelines, and scorecards.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field

Master's degree in engineering or a related field

Tools

Altium

KiCad

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks a DFx Engineer within the AD&S Manufacturing Engineering team to advance design-for-manufacturability efforts across avionics, electronics, wiring, and harnessing. You will evaluate designs for producibility, cost, and supplier fit, and contribute to process improvements and DFx tooling.

You will collaborate with supply chain, quality, operations, ME and DE, travel ~20% to supplier facilities, and help build cost models supporting cost and schedule decisions.