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Materials and Process Development Manager, Maritime NPI

Anduril


Job Location:

Santa Ana, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 146000 - 194000
Posted: 16 October 2026 (9 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 13 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

ABOUT THE TEAM

Andurils Maritime Manufacturing Technology Team is seeking a Materials and Process Development Engineer to join our team. The Maritime Manufacturing Technology Team is responsible for rapidly developing and implementing manufacturing materials technologies and processes for cutting-edge defense hardware including deployable static and moving surface undersea and sea to air vehicles and scaling these products in our new manufacturing facilities.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a Materials and Process Development Manager NPI to join our rapidly growing team in Santa Ana CA working in a cutting-edge production environment to advance the state-of-the-possible in maritime manufacturing. You will be the Materials and Process development innovator to drive to efficient rapid on-time production for the new maritime vehicles utilizing cutting edge technologies and material systems. The right person for this role has developed materials and process technologies across multiple platforms for a variety of product lines groups or businesses and integrated with both internal and external customers. If you are someone who wants to develop innovative adaptive flexible creative approaches to design and manufacturing and develop unified solutions for lots of stakeholders then this role is for you.

WHAT YOULL DO
  • Create and own the materials and processes development teams various solutions for new technologies supporting product and factory development the future production system creation integrating new materials and processes including technologies to improve production flow while enhancing product performance space allocation and resource requirements across programs and products.
  • Question requirements in product and production system design and facility creation to ensure the most cost and schedule effective solutions for our factories that meets the needs of our products.
  • Support design construction commissioning and start-up of the production systems at new factory sites ensuring successful delivery of the factory and products off the line.
  • Provide strategic leadership on product processes materials and technologies. Buy down risk to meet production performance and timelines in new facilities.
  • Lead hands-on: set an example and expedite project completion.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • 10 years of experience as manager for materials and processes technology development manufacturing engineering and/or production/process engineering.
  • Technology development experience in materials automation prototyping and processes.
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Active Secret or Top Secret security clearance.
  • Prior work with architecture and infrastructure engineering partners and/or general contractors to build improve or modify production facilities.
  • Process improvement including justification of return on investment for process or operational changes.
  • Application of new technologies new processes lean manufacturing and linear flow principles in a production environment.

US Salary Range

$146000 - $194000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

Benefits

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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Required Experience:

Manager