Senior Hardware PDP Engineer — Advanced Defense Tech & Equity

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, California, is seeking a Product Development Process Engineer to help build robust workflows for hardware product development inside the PDP team.

You will partner with Design, Program, and Engineering to define standards, release new processes, and roll them out across the organization. Applicants should have a technical engineering background, 8+ years in design/development roles, and experience with CAD/PLM and defense industry practices; US Person required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level engineering degree required.
• 8+ years of industry experience in design, development or process roles.
• Mechanical or electrical design/development experience bringing new products to market.
• Experience with defense standards and cross-functional requirements.
• Must be a US Person.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Design, Program, and Cross-Functional leads to align on best practices and standards.
• Develop PDP tool (GitHub, Party Bus, & Claude Collaboration).
• Gather requirements and develop the architecture for how processes are used across the various impacted teams.
• Collaborate with our tool development team to create a user interface tool for a large user base across various products.
• Define clear process requirements and expectations for design and product development teams based on collaboration feedback.
• Own the central standards repository with key projects such as engineering design standards & analysis standards.
• Partner with Engineering and cross-functional leadership on best design practices, test practices, and entry/exit criteria for qualification & build testing and design review gates.
• Centralize requirements into clear resources for the functional teams to leverage during R&D, Design Review Preparations, Qualification Campaign definition, and production readiness.
• Draft process workflows, user guides, and formal specifications/standard operating procedures.
• Collect feedback and lead continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead and coordinate the release and department rollout of new processes.
• Support development of training guides, modules, training videos, and related materials.

Skills

Process development

Cross-functional collaboration

Requirements management

Hardware design experience

IT tools familiarity

US Person

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical/Mechanical/Industrial Engineering or related

MS in engineering (preferred)

Tools

CAD

PLM

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, California, is seeking a Product Development Process Engineer to help build robust workflows for hardware product development inside the PDP team.

You will partner with Design, Program, and Engineering to define standards, release new processes, and roll them out across the organization. Applicants should have a technical engineering background, 8+ years in design/development roles, and experience with CAD/PLM and defense industry practices; US Person required.