Anduril
Senior Industrial Engineer, Simulation
$147K–$196K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years required; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- Preferred: bachelor's or advanced degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities; preferred: active security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.
About the job
Own and scale a validated, data-connected manufacturing simulation capability used to guide production planning, line design, capacity, staffing, and capital-investment decisions.
What you'll do
- Architect and maintain manufacturing simulation models, processes, standards, and data pipelines; integrate the capability with business systems.
- Lead and prioritize simulation studies, including capacity analysis, NPI ramps, bottleneck analysis, risk scenarios, and investment ROI assessments.
- Translate model results into recommendations and accessible tools for stakeholders; hand off validated models and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 6+ years building simulation and/or operations-research models for operational or capital decisions in fast-paced manufacturing.
- Hands-on expertise with discrete event simulation software and its underlying statistics; command of capacity analysis, Monte Carlo, regression, and mathematical optimization.
- Strong Python and SQL programming ability, including data pipelines and reproducible analysis.
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.
Nice to have
- Degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
- Experience establishing centralized analytics or simulation capabilities, designing production lines, integrating enterprise systems, or applying AI tools to modeling and analysis.
Pay
$147,000 — $196,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Siemens Tecnomatix Plant Simulation, Simio, FlexSim, AnyLogic, Arena, ProModel, SimPy, Python
AI focus
Establish responsible use of AI for data extraction and cleaning, parameter fitting, model and pipeline development, scenario generation, and plain-language summaries; set validation and review guardrails.
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