DFx Manufacturing Engineer

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.

Anduril’s Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S) Manufacturing Engineering team is seeking a Staff DFxManufacturing Engineer to drive design-for-manufacturability, assembly, and testability across our avionics, electronics, and harnessing subsystems. This role spans our full portfolio of autonomous aircraft, cruise missiles, and loitering munitions — ensuring that electronics hardware is designed to be produced at scale from the earliest stages of development.

As a Staff-level individual contributor, you will be the technical authority on DFx for electronics and avionics across AD&S. You will embed with design engineering teams during concept and detailed design, lead structured DFx reviews, and translate manufacturing constraints into actionable design guidance. This is an inherently cross-functional role: you will work daily alongside supply chain, design engineering, quality, and operations teams to ensure producibility is built into every decision, from component selection through final acceptance.

Your work directly shapes whether our products can bebuilt reliably, affordably, and at the rate our programs demand.

You will also mentor manufacturing engineers across programs and build the DFx methodology andtoolset that scales with the organization.

• Own and drive the DFx process for avionics, electronics, and harnessing subsystems across AD&S programs, from concept through rate production.
• Lead structured DFM/DFA/DFT reviews at key design milestones, applying a rigorous scoring methodology to identify producibility risks and drive design changes before they become production problems.
• Embed with electrical and avionics design engineering teams to provide real-time manufacturing feedback on PCBA layout, component selection, connector and harnessing architecture, and test access.
• Work cross-functionally with supply chain, quality, operations, and design engineering on a daily basis — this role is the connective tissue between what gets designed and what gets built.
• Develop and maintain DFx standards, guidelines, and scorecards specific to electronics manufacturing processes including SMT, wave/selective solder, conformal coating, potting, wire harness fabrication, and box-build assembly.
• specification, process capability, and technology maturity — to produce quantified risk assessments that inform engineering and program decisions.
• Champion testability early in the design cycle: define test point access, boundary scan requirements, functional test strategies, and fixtures needed for production-rate acceptance testing.
• Partner with quality engineering to ensure DFx findings flow into inspection plans, acceptance criteria, and process control strategies.
• Collaborate with supply chain and sourcing teams to assess supplier manufacturing capability, support make-vs-buy decisions, and ensure external production meets DFx requirements.
• Close the loop between production floor feedback and upstream design improvements by working directly with operations and production engineering teams.
• Build and evolve the DFx toolkit — templates, scoring rubrics, lessons-learned databases, and training materials — so that DFx knowledge scales beyond any single person.
• Mentor and develop junior and mid-level manufacturing engineers on DFx principles and review techniques.
• Travel to production sites, suppliers, and partner facilities as needed (