Anduril
RAM Lead Engineer
$167K–$222K
Costa Mesa, California, United States +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- Costa Mesa, California, United States
Santa Ana, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years; the posting states either reliability, RAM, or sustainment engineering on complex electromechanical systems, or experience as a Reliability, Design/Development, Process, Automation, Industrial, or Test Engineer.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or equivalent; alternatively, a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.
About the job
Owns reliability, availability, and maintainability for maritime autonomous vehicles, from requirements and design through production and field performance.
What you'll do
- Set and verify RAM requirements; perform reliability, availability, maintainability, and failure-mode analyses.
- Develop and execute qualification and production test plans, investigate failures, and drive corrective design and process improvements.
- Establish reliability processes and data systems, including FRACAS, and lead and mentor engineers across the RAM discipline.
What they ask for
- 7+ years in reliability, RAM, or sustainment engineering on complex electromechanical systems; the posting also lists 7+ years in several related engineering roles.
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or equivalent; the posting also lists a B.S. in a related technical discipline.
- Experience with safety-critical hardware and software systems in defense or aerospace, reliability frameworks, RAM requirements, FMECA/FMEA, fault tree analysis, modeling, and failure investigation.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.
Nice to have
- M.S. degree in a related engineering discipline.
- Experience with MIL-HDBK-217Plus, MIL-HDBK-472, manufacturing readiness, accelerated testing, or unmanned/autonomous systems.
Pay
$167,000 — $222,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
MIL-HDBK-217Plus, MIL-HDBK-217, MIL-HDBK-472, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-516C, MIL-STD-1629, FRACAS
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative