Senior/Staff Tooling Engineer

XYZ Venture Capital; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health benefits

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Staff/Senior Tooling and Equipment Design Engineer for our Maritime Manufacturing Technology Team in Costa Mesa, CA. You will design tooling and equipment to support manufacturing processes, develop digital twins, and drive efficient, on-time startup of new maritime production facilities.

The role requires 10+ years designing tooling for production systems, hands-on manufacturing experience, and ability to travel up to 50%.

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing tooling, equipment and processes for manufacturing technology development
• Experience implementing tooling for large scale manufacturing
• Hands-on work in a manufacturing environment adjacent to operations
• Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Responsibilities

• Design tooling and equipment integrating with factory manufacturing equipment and NC/robotic welding to enable future production systems.
• Support tooling integration, commissioning and certification in prototype and production development
• Develop and validate tooling concepts to meet performance requirements
• Collaborate with manufacturing tech, facilities, and vendors to source equipment for production needs
• Communicate on the floor with engineers and manufacturing personnel to sustain a cohesive team
• Drive cross-functional collaboration to deliver creative production system designs and support external vendors

Skills

Tooling design

Equipment integration

Manufacturing technology

Digital twins

Lean manufacturing

Robot/NC tooling

Cross-functional collaboration

Production floor support

Tools

CAD

Simulation

ANALOG/DIGITAL THREAD

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril’s Manufacturing Technology, Maritime Team is seeking a Staff/Senior Tooling and Equipment Design Engineer to join our team in Costa Mesa, CA. The Maritime Manufacturing Technology Team is responsible for rapidly developing and implementing manufacturing technologies and processes for cutting‑edge defense hardware, including deployable static and moving surface, undersea and sea to air vehicles and scaling these products in our new manufacturing facilities.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Tooling and Equipment Design Engineer, you will be developing tooling, equipment, and layouts to support manufacturing processes, the production system, movement simulations and digital twins of the production environment in order to drive to efficient, rapid, on‑time production and start‑up of the new production facilities for maritime vehicles. The right person for this role has designed tooling and equipment solutions enabling production systems and manufacturing models of the work environment for a variety of product lines, groups, or businesses and integrated with both internal and external customers. If you are someone who wants to develop innovative, adaptive, flexible, creative approaches to manufacturing production systems and develop unified solutions for lots of stakeholders then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design tooling and equipment that integrates with factory manufacturing equipment, NC machinery, and robotic welding equipment to enable processing systems for supporting factory development and the future production system. You will utilize computer aided design, simulation, and computer graphics to enable lean manufacturing principles, integrated metrology and visual management, including technologies, tools and processes to improve production flow while enhancing product performance, space allocation and resource requirements across programs and products.
• Support tooling and equipment integration, commissioning, and certification in prototype and production development
• Develop, review, and validate tooling and equipment concepts to meet performance requirements
• Team with manufacturing technology, facilities, and suppliers to create, source, and assess potential equipment and tooling to solve for production needs
• Be on the floor communicating and integrating with fellow engineers and manufacturing personnel to perpetuate a cohesive mission‑oriented culture
• Drive collaboration with manufacturing technology, product design, manufacturing engineering, operations, facilities and construction, environmental safety & health, and finance to deliver creative and effective production system designs, as well as external vendors supporting the design, construction, and commissioning of new facilities

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of experience as a designer and developer of tooling, equipment and processes for manufacturing technology development, simulation modeling, digital thread development and/or production/process engineering
• Technology development and implementation experience in equipment and tooling for large scale manufacturing
• Ability to work hands‑on in a manufacturing environment, next to operations and manufacturing engineering to understand and optimize the production system
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience designing, manufacturing, procuring, installing, and maintaining tooling, fixturing, and manufacturing equipment and tooling
• Process improvement, including justification of return on investment for process or operational changes
• Application of lean manufacturing and linear flow principles in a production environment
• Automation development for manufacturing processes in assembly, integration, test, and finishing operations
• Design and construction of facilities, tooling, fixturing and equipment for large scale production systems

US Salary Range $146,000 — $220,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full‑time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

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