Senior Industrial Engineer: AI Factory & Simulation Lead

Anduril Industries; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Santa Ana, CA, seeks an Industrial Engineer for the Maritime Manufacturing Technology team to model, simulate, and optimize production flows for a new autonomous factory. You’ll develop discrete-event models, schedule production, and translate insights into actionable control decisions.

The role requires 8+ years designing production systems, capacity modeling, and collaboration with manufacturing teams; US Secret clearance eligibility is required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing production systems, factory layouts, or manufacturing lines for large, complex, low-rate products.
• Demonstrated capacity or rate modeling: you have built the model, defended the number, and been held to it.
• Ability to work directly with manufacturing teams to implement process improvements based on simulation and analytical results.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Plant and equipment layouts, material flow paths, and space allocation for a new maritime factory.
• Capacity plans and rate models: units per year under a given configuration, with the sensitivity analysis behind the number.
• Sequencing of operations and work flow: how a build is broken into stations, what runs in parallel, where the unit sits and for how long.
• Discrete‑event simulation of the factory and the line, used as the primary way we validate capacity before the building exists.
• Designing and optimizing the production system by integrating design, supply base, facilities, equipment, and personnel.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, operations research, manufacturing engineering, systems engineering, or related technical field

Job description

Anduril Industries in Santa Ana, CA, seeks an Industrial Engineer for the Maritime Manufacturing Technology team to model, simulate, and optimize production flows for a new autonomous factory. You’ll develop discrete-event models, schedule production, and translate insights into actionable control decisions.

The role requires 8+ years designing production systems, capacity modeling, and collaboration with manufacturing teams; US Secret clearance eligibility is required.