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 Intelligence Systems is seeking a Lead Manufacturing Engineer to join our team and lead the manufacturing process development for our products. The Manufacturing Team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware, including static equipment, moving ground equipment, and complex vehicles. This responsibility includes everything in the manufacturing value-chain including, but not limited to, Design for Manufacturability, tool design & selection, process creation & optimization, vendor sourcing & interaction, quality planning, and work documentation associated with the hardware.

ABOUT THE JOB: As a Lead Manufacturing Engineering, you will be responsible for leading a manufacturing engineering team over a set of Anduril’s products to drive process improvements, ensure the highest quality of production, and support the development and implementation of new products.

Responsibilities

of this role will require you to leverage your technical expertise as well as leadership skills to set objectives, build cross-functional teams, and drive rapid project execution. You will play a crucial role in optimizing manufacturing processes, reducing costs, and increasing efficiencies on existing technologies while also developing new products and scaling to full scale production. The right person for this role can demonstrate past holistic ownership on solving a technical challenge with a creative, physical, solution that they either personally manufactured or oversaw manufacturing on, in a fast-paced, resource-limited environment.

If you are someone who thrives in such an environment, then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Execute the manufacturing of a certain product or set of products, from initial prototyping through full-scale production. Lead a team responsible for delivering on-time completion of development and production units within a product group. Work with design engineers during the development process to drive design for manufacturing best practices into the design effort, and help facilitate the transition from design to prototype to rate production.

Requirements

, etc. Uphold and advise on quality management and business application programs as they pertain to manufacturing within your area. Facilitate make versus buy decisions, and coordinate with internal supply chain teams to manage vendors to ensure quality deliveries on time.

Collaborate with internal customers and manufacturing planning teams to define capacity planning actions to meet customer needs and expectations. Analyze metrics for continuous improvement initiatives (cost reduction, QI reduction & capacity increase). Instill a culture of innovation, teamwork, and accountability within the manufacturing engineering product team.

Develop production and test methodologies and implement best practices to enable scaling production capabilities for larger, more complex products. Travel to suppliers and partner sites to do initial sourcing work, solve ongoing production issues, and implement process procedures as required.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in M