Anduril
Staff Mechanical Engineer, Omen
$191K–$253K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 12, 2025
- Experience
- Minimum 12+ years in a professional technical engineering role; immersive technical project experience also required.
- Education
- BS or MS in mechanical engineering, or equivalent work experience.
About the job
Leads mechanical design, integration, testing, and production readiness for Anduril’s Omen autonomous air vehicle.
What you'll do
- Own mechanical design from concept through low-rate production; define requirements and verification methods.
- Lead design reviews, analysis, prototyping, vendor work, and hardware test plans while coordinating across disciplines.
- Optimize vehicle subsystems for development speed, mass, manufacturability, and cost; support customer demonstrations and testing.
What they ask for
- 12+ years in a technical engineering role in a professional setting, plus experience in an immersive technical project.
- Strong knowledge of mechanics, composite materials, design, analysis, testing, fabrication, load paths, and hand calculations.
- Proficiency in CAD, with complex fixturing and tooling design; hands-on experience developing assembly tooling through implementation.
- BS or MS in mechanical engineering, or equivalent work experience; eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Nice to have
- NX/Teamcenter experience; clean-sheet aircraft configuration experience.
- Airframe tooling/manufacturing, systems integration, metrology, structural development testing, or aviation-related hands-on experience.
Pay
$191,000 — $253,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
NX, Teamcenter
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