Senior DFx Manufacturing Engineer - Avionics & Harnessing

Telemetry Today LLC; Costa Mesa (CA); Hybrid; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Top-tier benefits

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior DFx Engineer to optimize manufacturability, assembly, and cost across avionics, wiring, and harnessing in a high‑growth defense tech environment. You will lead DFx reviews, translate constraints into action, and partner with supply chain and quality to secure capable contract manufacturers.

You will leverage expertise in electronics manufacturing processes, IPC standards, and ECAD tools to drive design improvements that reduce cost while maintaining

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, producibility engineering, or DFx with a significant focus on electronics, avionics, wiring, or harnessing.
• Strong working knowledge of electronics and/or harnessing manufacturing processes: SMT placement and reflow, wave and selective soldering, conformal coating, potting and encapsulation, wire harness fabrication (cut/strip/crimp/solder/mold), and electromechanical box-build.
• Experience participating in or leading DFM/DFA reviews and translating findings into measurable design improvements that reduce cost and improve producibility.
• Experience supporting contract manufacturer evaluations — including facility assessments, process capability reviews, or production readiness evaluations.
• Understanding of cost drivers in electronics and harnessing production, with exposure to should-cost modeling or cost analysis.
• Ability to read and critically evaluate electrical schematics, PCB layouts, harness drawings, and mechanical packaging for producibility and cost impact.
• Working knowledge of IPC standards (IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, IPC-620, IPC-6012) and their application to design, process, and supplier qualification decisions.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally across design engineering, manufacturing engineering, supply chain, quality, and operations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present DFx and cost findings to engineering teams and drive alignment on design changes.
• Comfortable working across multiple programs simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Personal experience physically building or reworking electronic assemblies or harnesses. Hands-on credibility matters.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

Responsibilities

• Execute DFx analysis across avionics, electronics, wiring, and harnessing subsystems for AD&S programs, with a primary focus on manufacturability, assembly, and cost.
• Participate in and help lead structured DFM/DFA/DFC reviews at key design milestones, applying rigorous scoring to identify producibility and cost risks and drive design changes before they reach production.
• Work directly with SME manufacturing engineers and design engineers to evaluate designs, translate manufacturing constraints into actionable feedback, and support design trades that balance performance, producibility, and cost.
• Support the selection and qualification of contract manufacturers for avionics, electronics, and harnessing production — assessing supplier manufacturing capability, process maturity, and cost competitiveness against DFx requirements.
• Participate in supplier manufacturing assessments including facility reviews, process audits, and capability evaluations.
• Contribute to should-cost models and cost-driver analyses for electronics and harnessing assemblies, identifying design changes that reduce unit cost without compromising quality or performance.
• Develop and maintain DFx standards, guidelines, and scorecards specific to electronics manufacturing processes including SMT, wave/selective solder, conformal coating, potting, wire harness fabrication, and box-build assembly.
• Analyze designs across key lenses — manufacturability/assembly, cost structure, adherence to specification, process capability, and technology maturity — to contribute to quantified risk assessments that inform engineering and program decisions.
• Partner with supply chain to align DFx requirements with sourcing strategy, ensuring that designs are producible by the suppliers we intend to use.
• Collaborate with quality engineering to ensure DFx findings flow into inspection plans, acceptance criteria, and supplier quality requirements.
• Close the loop between production floor feedback, supplier performance data, and upstream design improvements.
• Contribute to the DFx toolkit — templates, scoring rubrics, cost models, lessons-learned databases, and training materials — so that DFx knowledge scales across the organization.
• Travel to production sites, contract manufacturers, and supplier facilities (~20%, depending on business needs).

Skills

DFx engineering

Cross-functional teamwork

Supplier evaluation

Cost analysis

PCB/PCBA review

Education

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

Tools

IPC standards (IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, IPC-620, IPC-6012)

ECAD tools (Altium, KiCad)

Box-build assembly

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior DFx Engineer to optimize manufacturability, assembly, and cost across avionics, wiring, and harnessing in a high‑growth defense tech environment. You will lead DFx reviews, translate constraints into action, and partner with supply chain and quality to secure capable contract manufacturers.

You will leverage expertise in electronics manufacturing processes, IPC standards, and ECAD tools to drive design improvements that reduce cost while maintaining