Senior Manufacturing Engineer, PCBA, Barracuda

Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, CA

Level: Senior
Team: Manufacturing
Travel: 25%
Degree: Preferred
Experience asked: 8+ years
Industry: Aerospace & defense
Posted: 30+ days ago

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A senior manufacturing role at Anduril Industries (aerospace & defense) in Costa Mesa, CA. You will own PCBAs and avionics used on the program and work closely with cross functional groups to support production.

They ask for: 8+ years · degree preferred
Tools it names: Machining
Day to day: about 25% travel

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About the role

Required qualifications

✓Degree in a technical field preferred such as engineering, math, or a hard science
✓8+ years of experience in a relevant field, manufacturing or design in PCBA and SMT processes, advanced packaging
✓Demonstrated ability to creatively deliver electromechanical hardware in a resource-constrained environment
✓Demonstrated in-kind or direct team cooperation skills, with backing examples
✓Personal experience physically manufacturing hardware via any means (machining, fabrication, soldering, assembly, etc.); work on personal or extracurricular projects is a plus
✓Willingness to travel occasionally (<25%) to support global manufacturing operations
✓Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

Preferred qualifications

✓Experience with Altium software
✓Experience with IPC-610 and J-STD-001 standards
✓Hands-on experience with R/C and/or autonomous flight vehicles, flight controllers, or other related control systems
✓Software scripting experience in any language
✓Strong background in material science, electronics packaging and reliability engineering
✓Current active U.S. Secret security clearance

$146,000 — $194,000 USD

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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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

The Barracuda Manufacturing Team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware for the Warfighter. This responsibility includes everything in the manufacturing value-chain, including, but not limited to, Design for Manufacturability work, tool design & selection, process creation & optimization, vendor sourcing & interaction, quality planning, and work documentation associated with the hardware that the Manufacturing Engineer owns.

About the job

Anduril’s Barracuda Manufacturing team is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer focusing on PCBA. As a PCBA Senior Manufacturing Engineer, you will own PCBAs and avionics used on the program and work closely with cross functional groups to support production. The right person for this role has experience reviewing PCBA technical drawings, assembling PCBAs, troubleshooting board issues, and implementing quality control standards.

The right person for the team demonstrates past holistic ownership on solving a technical challenge with a creative, physical, solution that they either personally manufactured or oversaw manufacturing in a fast-paced, resource-limited environment. If you are someone who thrives in such an environment, brings personality to the team, is a hard worker, and ready to make an explosive impact, then this role is for you.

What you’ll do

•Leverage expertise in New Product Introduction (NPI) to seamlessly transition electromechanical products from prototype to high-volume production, optimizing manufacturability and supply chain scalability
•Collaborate with Design Engineering teams early in the development process to feedback Design For Manufacturability
•Develop and maintain PCBA workmanship standards, process parameters, and design rules aligned to evolving product and technology roadmaps
•Establish scalable DFM frameworks that enable consistent execution across multiple products, sites, and manufacturing partners
•Lead technical verification of quick turn and volume PCBA vendor capabilities, including SMT, advanced packaging, underfill, edge bond, and specialty processes
•Ensure ongoing compliance with approved manufacturing processes, materials, and quality targets at subcontractors
•Mentor and lead a high performing team of PCBA DFM engineers and technical leads