- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- Costa MesaCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Sep 4, 2026
- Salary
- $146,000–$194,000 a year
Full-time
Senior Industrial Engineer
Job description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center.
Job responsibilities
- Capture the current process including all physical constraints, business rules and detailed decision logic into a 3D simulation-based virtual factory to serve as process and operational knowledge base.
- Create feasible results, plans and schedules for shop floor, warehouse, factory & supply chain execution in all the relevant time ranges by ensuring that all scheduled operations are resource capacity, material, and…
- Maintain an adaptive, data generated and driven virtual factory to always retain a “current status” digital reference model for determining future performance of the factory/supply chain whenever required for different…
- Own the design of new production lines and work station layouts, both for low rate and full-rate production, leveraging a data-driven approach
- Proactively identify high variation processes, imbalances and bottlenecks caused by line layout, equipment constraints, staffing shortages, and other production inputs;
- Translate and drive action from metrics, KPIs, and reporting associated with monitoring production line health and efficiency, such as cycle time, throughput rate, capacity, utilization, and first pass yield
- Produce and maintain capacity plans, balanced line layouts, staffing allocations, and time standards for manufacturing work content
- Collaborate and drive operational improvements end-to-end for next-generation defense products as we scale in maturity and production rate.
Job requirements
- 8+ years past experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
- Experience with Technomatix “Plant Sim” simulation software or equivalent DES (Promodel, FlexSim, Simio, etc,) OR basic knowledge in object-oriented computer programming (example languages: Python, R, C++, Java, etc.)…
- Ability to read technical documentation such as facility drawings, assembly drawings, technical specifications and procedures for manufacturing processes for electronics, mechanical and electromechanical assembly,…
- Ability to work in ambiguity
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- Prior work designing and/or setting up new production lines or factories - from process mapping through to collaborating with infrastructure design partners and detailed work station design
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing and/or Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma principles in action
