Cleanroom Lead, SpaceActive$196K

Anduril's Space Manufacturing team is seeking a hands-on Cleanroom Lead to join our team. The Space Manufacturing team is responsible for the assembly, integration, and test of ground support equipment, PCBA, unit-level, and integrated systems that are vital for our aerospace and defense operations.

What you'll do

• Keep the three Space Manufacturing lab spaces: the space lab, the temporary cleanroom (under construction), and the new facility (under construction) — running day-to-day, including gowning/anterooms, air showers, test bays, subassembly and assembly zones, and storage, so build and test run without facility-driven downtime.

• Perform hands-on maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of lab equipment: and critical components, and coordinate specialists or vendors for work beyond your scope to keep equipment available through regularly scheduled maintenance.

• Run the day-to-day contamination-control routines for each cleanroom (graded: ISO 5–8): gowning and air-shower discipline, particle monitoring, supporting certification cadence, and keeping consumables (garments, gloves, wipes) stocked and flowing.

• Operate and maintain cleanroom and facility support systems hands-on: HVAC/air conditioning, environmental monitoring, compressed and specialty gases (including nitrogen purge), pumps, chillers, compressors, and DI water systems — taking readings, servicing on schedule, and coordinating vendors for larger work.

• Serve as the day-to-day, floor-level safety point of contact: follow and enforce safe work practices, handle and store hazardous materials and specialty gases safely, ensure safety instructions are in place before hazardous lab work begins, and support EHS on chemical handling, permits, and inspections.

• Manage lab equipment, assets, and material flow: tool/fixture check-in/check-out and asset tracking, calibration/metrology scheduling (in-house and via vendors), preventive maintenance, and receiving/kitting/stores/consumables flow in coordination with supply chain and quality.

What they're looking for

• Keep each space audit-ready: maintain cleanroom operating procedures, gowning and contamination-control work instructions, safety procedures, and certification/monitoring records.
• Support the stand-up and transition of work into the new facility as it comes: online — help set up new areas, move and install equipment, and support the wind-down of temporary space as capability moves.
• Partner day-to-day with AI&T, manufacturing engineering, and program teams to: keep work and WIP moving across the sites, and communicate statuses, issues, and suggestions clearly.
• Over time, help onboard and guide additional technicians/specialists as the: sites scale (potential growth into a team-lead/people-manager scope).