Manufacturing Engineering Lead, Surface Maritime

Anduril's Maritime Division is responsible for planning and executing Anduril's product and revenue roadmap for maritime missions. Working across product, engineering, business development, logistics, and operations, the Maritime team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril maritime capabilities in a challenging operational environment worldwide. 

We are looking for a Manufacturing Engineering Lead to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa. As a leader in the Maritime Division, you must be a technical leader with the expertise to evaluate, qualify, manage, and advocate for an increasing number of sophisticated parallel pursuits. This role is crucial in ensuring that each initiative aligns with the company's strategic direction and receives the appropriate resourcing, balancing innovation with practical execution to drive the business line's success. 

You will lead the development of manufacturing methods and prototypes for maritime products from concept to delivery. You will work closely with partners and subcontractors to develop designs that are readily producible and traceable to customer requirements.  

The diverse 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. Leveraging your intuition and prior experience will be critical to employ the correct design and manufacturing principles from the start. The ideal candidate will have experience planning, managing and successfully completing complex projects. 

• The Manufacturing Engineering Lead will lead the creation of a novel production system for Anduril’s surface vessels
• 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
• Own the relationships with Anduril’s key manufacturing partners for surface vessel production, managing their progress and holding them accountable for cost, quality and delivery through a phase of rapid product development and manufacturing ramp
• Provide design-for-manufacturability (DfM) feedback to the design team, ensuring our ability to scale
• Complete and maintain capacity analysis for our surface products, understanding at all times the limiting factors for scaling production and initiating interdisciplinary projects to remove them
• Complete and maintain product NRE and COGS models to understand the major cost drivers of NPI and production  
• Contribute to major CapEx planning, including facility expansion and factory design
• Write documentation required for successfully manufacturing, integrating and testing hardware at scale, such as work instructions, quality plans, inspection requirements, etc
• Work with technicians and other engineers hands-on, building prototype hardware
• Integrate and immerse yourself in Anduril’s product development approach and build effective relationships with personnel across multiple business lines. Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful program execution across groups of engineering teams and more broadly across departments. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Naval Architecture, Industrial Engineering, Material Science, or proven experience in a relevant field minimum of 10 years experience, 2+ years of people leadership experience
• Travel 25% to Customer and Test Sites 
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance 

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Experience running complex external projects, such as a production ramp at a contract manufacturer
• Experience owning commercial responsibility (cost) for complex external projects
• Experience driving process improvements in a manufacturing setting
• Familiarity with maritime systems and military customers
• Experience working with prototype and production manufacturing methods – large format 3D printing, casting, welding, machining, stamping, etc. Familiar with the supply chain and vendor management for these technologies.  
• Personal experience physically manufacturing hardware via any means (machining, fabrication, soldering, assembly, etc.). Work on personal or extracurricular projects is a plus