Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Space Vehicle IntegrationActive$194K

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U. S.

What you'll do

• Own the vehicle-level build flow for both production vehicle lines: define assembly and integration sequence, station and zone content, takt, and the work instructions and travelers that execute it for each vehicle line.

• Own the post-environmental close-out stations: weight and balance, mass properties verification, sealing, final mechanical close-out and ship preparation. These stations are the throughput bottleneck in every flow we have modeled; making them faster is the single highest-value thing this role does.

• Develop and qualify vehicle integration processes: precision fastening and torque control, bonded and shimmed joints, mechanism and propulsion module installation, harness routing and installation, and alignment to metrology-defined datums.

• Drive Design for Manufacturability and Assembly into vehicle-level designs: before CDR — access, fastener reach, tool clearance, integration order, and testability of the assembled vehicle — partnering directly with structures, mechanisms and systems design engineers.

• Act as a principal stakeholder in deploying Anduril's Manufacturing: Development Process (MDP) on this program. The Manager and Senior Manager of Manufacturing Engineering are the full process owners; every manufacturing engineer is an owner and an evangelist. You will be expected to carry MDP into design forums rather than wait for it to be handed to you.

• Mature manufacturing readiness artifacts concurrently with design readiness: milestones — producibility assessments, process and tooling plans, build flow definition and manufacturing readiness evidence timed to PDR and CDR rather than assembled after them.

What they're looking for

• Direct experience integrating satellites, spacecraft or space-based: instruments (flight hardware), including support to environmental test campaigns (TVAC, vibration, shock, acoustics) and launch site integration.
• Familiarity with space workmanship and process standards: NASA-STD-8739 series, IPC-620 for harness and cable, ECSS equivalents — and with mechanism and fastener standards for flight hardware.
• Stood up an assembly or integration line in a new facility: layout, station design, utility and tooling definition, and first-article execution.
• Deployed a manufacturing process framework or readiness discipline across an: organization — not just complied with one. Experience evangelizing process adoption to engineers who did not report to you.
• Took a spacecraft or complex electromechanical product from single-digit: annual builds into rate production of 100+ units per year, including automation or semi-automation of assembly operations.
• Active Top Secret clearance