Anduril
Production Mechanical Engineer, Space
$132K–$175K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- Preferred: 4+ years of mechanical design or production/sustaining engineering experience in a professional setting with space hardware.
- Education
- BS or higher degree in engineering or a hard science.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
About the job
Owns production readiness for space hardware, maturing flight-proven designs for repeatable, higher-rate manufacturing.
What you'll do
- Improve designs and production processes to increase producibility, yield, reliability, and build/test throughput.
- Maintain drawings, GD&T, BOMs, revisions, and engineering changes; resolve production nonconformances as the Responsible Engineer.
- Partner with manufacturing, supply chain, and test teams on production transitions, prototypes, trial builds, tooling, and technical documentation.
What they ask for
- BS or higher degree in engineering or a hard science.
- CAD skills and ability to create high-quality engineering drawings, including GD&T.
- Experience taking hardware designs into manufacturing and production, including DFM/assembly and drawing release, and transitioning hardware from prototype or low-rate to higher-rate production.
- Working knowledge of BOM structures, revision control, and ECO/ECN; hands-on fabrication and assembly skills; able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
Nice to have
- 4+ years of mechanical design or production/sustaining engineering experience in a professional setting with space hardware.
- Experience with NX/Teamcenter or equivalent CAD/PLM; nonconformance disposition, tooling/fixtures, electronic integration, analytical coding, or process improvement methods.
Pay
$132,000 — $175,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
CAD, GD&T, BOM, ECO/ECN, PLM/PDM, NX/Teamcenter, Python, MATLAB
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