Machine Vision Project Manager — Drive Factory Impact

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Technical Project Manager for its Costa Mesa, CA team. You will coordinate machine vision deployments, work with engineering and operations, and manage scoping, delivery, and sustainment of tools and processes across the company.

Ideal candidates are ambitious, organized, and concise communicators with 3+ years in hardware/manufacturing projects, comfortable on the factory floor, and willing to travel between sites.

Qualifications

• U.S. Person due to access to export-controlled information or facilities.
• Must be eligible for a U.S. security clearance.
• 3+ years managing technical projects or programs in hardware/manufacturing/automation or equipment deployment.
• Experience translating ambiguous stakeholder needs into written requirements, acceptance criteria, and test plans.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, technicians, operators, and senior leadership.
• Comfortable working on an active factory floor, including occasional off-shift support and travel between Anduril manufacturing sites.

Responsibilities

• Engage with product lines to evaluate pain points and quantify baselines (escape rate, inspection hours, scrap and rework costs).
• Develop technical design documentation including requirements, acceptance criteria, integration constraints, and test plans.
• Forecast scope creep and ensure understanding of capabilities and limits by product lines.
• Manage delivery dates of machine vision deployments across concurrent projects; build schedules considering lead times and factory downtime.
• Coordinate cross-functional engagement across manufacturing, quality engineering, controls, IT/infrastructure, facilities, and product lines.
• Drive installation, acceptance testing, operator training, and documentation; establish spares and escalation paths for sustained operation.
• Scale the function by creating repeatable playbooks, templates, and deployment metrics.

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or technical field

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks a Technical Project Manager for its Costa Mesa, CA team. You will coordinate machine vision deployments, work with engineering and operations, and manage scoping, delivery, and sustainment of tools and processes across the company.

Ideal candidates are ambitious, organized, and concise communicators with 3+ years in hardware/manufacturing projects, comfortable on the factory floor, and willing to travel between sites.