Staff DFx Manufacturing Engineer

ABOUT THE TEAM

Andurils Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S) Manufacturing Engineering team is seeking a Staff DFxManufacturing Engineer to drive design-for-manufacturability assembly and testability across ouravionics electronics and harnessing subsystems. This role spans our full portfolio of autonomousaircraft cruise missiles and loitering munitions ensuring that electronics hardware is designed to beproduced at scale from the earliest stages of development.

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

WHAT YOULL DO

• 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.
• Analyze designs across five key lenses manufacturability/assembly quality adherence to
• 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 (<10%).

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Manufacturing Engineering Mechanical Engineering Industrial Engineering or a related field.
• 12 years of experience in manufacturing engineering process engineering or producibility engineering with a significant focus on electronics avionics or electromechanical assemblies. A
• Masters Degree can replace 2 years of work experience.
• Deep working knowledge of electronics manufacturing processes: SMT placement and reflow wave and selective soldering conformal coating potting and encapsulation cable and harness fabrication and electromechanical box-build.
• Demonstrated experience leading DFM/DFA/DFT reviews and translating findings into measurable design improvements.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally across design engineering supply chain quality and operations and to be effective without positional authority.
• Ability to read and critically evaluate electrical schematics PCB layouts harness drawings and mechanical packaging for producibility.
• Strong command of IPC standards (IPC-A-610 J-STD-001 IPC-620 IPC-6012) and their application to design and process decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to present DFx findings to engineering leadership and drive alignment on design changes.
• Comfortable working across multiple programs simultaneously in a fast-paced high-growth environment.
• Personal experience physically building or reworking electronic assemblies (soldering harness build test debug). Hands-on credibility matters.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Masters degree in engineering or a related field.
• Experience in aerospace or defense electronics production particularly with qualified or flight-critical hardware.
• Familiarity with AS9100/AS9102 quality management systems and First Article Inspection processes.
• Experience with PCBA insourcing or standing up electronics manufacturing lines (SMT test integration).
• Proficiency in ECAD tools (Altium KiCad or similar) sufficient to review designs independently.
• Background in Design of Experiments (DOE) statistical process control or Six Sigma applied to electronics manufacturing.
• Experience developing automated or semi-automated test solutions for production electronics.
• Appropriate clearance classification.

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:

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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