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Salary: USD 126,000 - 167,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. The company's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that delivers real-time 3D command and control. Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
The Manufacturing Engineering team is responsible for rapidly iterating, scaling, and sustaining cutting-edge defense hardware, including autonomous flight vehicles, intelligent ground systems, radar, and sensor payloads. As an Electrical Manufacturing Engineer, you will serve as the technical authority for Circuit Card Assemblies (CCA/PCBA), embedded electronics manufacturing, and production test definition across both New Product Introduction (NPI) and rate production.
Key responsibilities include:
**PCBA Design for Manufacturability & Assembly (DFM/DFA):**
Partner directly with Electrical Hardware Design Engineers during schematic capture and layout to optimize complex multilayer rigid and rigid-flex boards for automated SMT production. Review board layouts in Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro, or Mentor Graphics to verify pad geometries, solder mask dams, trace clearances, via-in-pad plating, and component spacing to maximize assembly yields. Review component footprints, connector sections, and active IC packages to ensure manufacturability and functionality with production processes.
**Production Test Strategy & Process Definition:**
Ensure manufacturing test strategy across board and sub-assembly levels are executable, including In-Circuit Testing (ICT bed-of-nails), flying probe, boundary scan (JTAG), and connectorized functional verification tests (FVT). Establish test limits, pass/fail criteria, and fault-coverage metrics to hand off to the Manufacturing Test Engineering team. Partner with Electrical Design Engineers to drive strict Design for Testability (DFT) guidelines—ensuring adequate test point density, probe access, net observability, and connector accessibility. Define standard test processes, routing sequences, and flashing/calibration workflows for the factory floor. Analyze production test yield fallout and telemetry to identify whether failures stem from component defects, SMT process variation, or test fixture/coverage escapes, feeding actionable data back into the test and design loops.
**Embedded Hardware Bring-Up, Firmware, & Automation:**
Develop and utilize diagnostic scripts in Python and Bash to exercise board interfaces, log diagnostic telemetry, and support hardware verification during initial manufacturing bring-up. Support initial board bring-up on the manufacturing line across modern embedded compute platforms, such as AMD/Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ SoCs, ARM Cortex processors, and high-speed memory interfaces. Define production flashing, secure-key provisioning, and interface validation procedures over embedded buses and protocols: MIL-STD-1553, PCIe, Ethernet, CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, and JTAG. Collaborate with Embedded Software, FPGA, and Test Engineering teams to specify low-level test hooks, firmware images (C/C++), or register-level diagnostic routines needed to validate hardware health.
**EMS Partnership & Supplier Quality:**
Partner with world-class Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) suppliers to achieve high-yield, mission-critical reliability. Conduct design reviews, process audits, and capability assessments with EMS partners. Establish supplier scorecards and continuous improvement initiatives to drive yield, quality, and cost optimization.
**Requirements:**
- 5+ years of hands-on electrical manufacturing engineering experience in high-reliability, high-complexity electronics environments (aerospace, defense, medical device, or automotive preferred).
- Deep expertise in PCBA design for manufacturability (DFM/DFA), including multilayer rigid and rigid-flex board design, SMT process optimization, and component selection for production.
- Proficiency in PCB design tools: Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro, or Mentor Graphics.
- Strong understanding of embedded electronics manufacturing, including component sourcing, supplier quality, and EMS partner management.
- Hands-on experience defining and executing production test strategies: ICT, flying probe, boundary scan (JTAG), and functional verification test (FVT).
- Demonstrated expertise in Design for Testability (DFT) principles and test coverage analysis.
- Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting for diagnostic automation and hardware validation.
- Experience with embedded compute platforms: ARM Cortex, Xilinx Zynq, or similar SoCs.
- Familiarity with embedded communication protocols: MIL-STD-1553, PCIe, Ethernet, CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, JTAG.
- Knowledge of production flashing, firmware provisioning, and secure-key management workflows.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot hardware issues at the silicon, board, and systems level.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- IPC-A-610 / J-STD-001 Application Specialist (CIS) or Trainer (CIT) certification preferred.
