Manufacturing Engineer - Defense Hardware & Rapid Prototyping

XYZ Venture Capital

Santa Ana (CA)

On-site

USD 90,000 - 150,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to join its Bolt manufacturing team. The role involves owning manufacturing segments, developing tooling for fabrication, and coordinating with contract manufacturers to enable rapid prototyping and scalable production.

The ideal candidate has hands-on hardware experience, strong problem solving in constrained environments, and demonstrated leadership. This on-site role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration to deliver hardware for

Qualifications

Degree in a technical field such as engineering, math, or a hard science.
2+ years of experience in a relevant field, preferably manufacturing or design of electromechanical hardware.
Demonstrated ability to creatively deliver electromechanical hardware in a resource-constrained environment.
Demonstrated in-kind or direct team leadership skills, with backing examples.
Personal experience physically manufacturing hardware via any means (machining, fabrication, soldering, assembly, etc.). Work on personal or extracurricular projects is a plus.
A genuine interest in manufacturing and thirst for learning.
U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.

Responsibilities

Own a portion or all of the manufacturing value chain for a certain product or set of products.
Develop novel tooling solutions for fabrication and assembly of structural parts.
Develop process flows, breaking down large, complex assemblies into a logical part flow of subassemblies and sub-processes.
Write documentation required for successfully manufacturing their hardware at scale, such as work instructions, quality plans, inspection requirements, etc.
Work with contract manufacturers across various disciplines to develop repeatable, sustained processes for quick-turn development as well as at-scale production.
Work with technicians and other engineers hands-on, building prototype hardware.
Contribute to end-customer hardware mechanical or electrical design, including interconnects, board fabrication and inspection, etc.
Travel to suppliers to do initial sourcing work, solve ongoing production issues, and implement quality procedures