Staff DFx Mfg Engineer: Avionics & Electronics

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

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA, is hiring a Staff DFx Manufacturing Engineer to drive design-for-manufacturability across avionics and electronics. You will embed with design teams, lead DFx reviews, and translate manufacturing constraints into actionable guidance, ensuring producibility from concept to rate production.

This role spans supply chain, quality, and operations, mentors engineers, builds DFx toolkits, and travels to production sites as needed (<10%).

Qualifications

• Requires 12+ years in manufacturing engineering with electronics/avionics focus.
• Experience leading DFM/DFA/DFT reviews and translating findings into design improvements.
• Strong ability to read electrical schematics, PCB layouts, and harness drawings for producibility.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the DFx process for avionics, electronics, and harnessing subsystems across programs from concept through rate production.
• Lead structured DFM/DFA/DFT reviews to identify producibility risks and drive design changes.
• Embed with design teams to provide real-time manufacturing feedback on PCBA layout, components, connectors, and harnessing architecture.
• Collaborate daily with supply chain, quality, operations, and design engineering as the connective tissue between design and build.
• Develop and maintain DFx standards, guidelines, and scorecards for electronics manufacturing processes (SMT, wave soldering, conformal coating, potting, harness fabrication, box-build).

Skills

DFx expertise

Manufacturing engineering

IPC standards knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Schematic/PCB review

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Manufacturing/Mechanical/Industrial Engineering or related field

Master’s Degree can replace 2 years of experience

Tools

ECAD tools (Altium, KiCad)

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA, is hiring a Staff DFx Manufacturing Engineer to drive design-for-manufacturability across avionics and electronics. You will embed with design teams, lead DFx reviews, and translate manufacturing constraints into actionable guidance, ensuring producibility from concept to rate production.

This role spans supply chain, quality, and operations, mentors engineers, builds DFx toolkits, and travels to production sites as needed (<10%).