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Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is hiring Mechanical Design Engineers to design, test, and scale mission-critical hardware across autonomous air, sea, ground, and strike platforms. The role offers three specialized tracks:
**Core Technology Products:** Architect foundational hardware platforms spanning aircraft, missiles, maritime vessels, and ground systems. Lead blank-sheet mechanical packaging, tight electro-mechanical integration (thermal, RF, PCBAs), and rapid hardware iteration.
**Lethality (Warhead Design):** Design and mature advanced warheads, ordnance, and munitions systems. Bridge mechanical engineering, dynamic modeling, energetic material packaging, safety constraints, and live-fire test operations.
**Design for Excellence (DFM/DFA):** Sit at the critical interface between initial CAD concepts and production reality. Drive high-rate manufacturability, assembly optimization, drawing standards, and tooling strategies to ensure hardware scales at mission speed.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Own components and complex mechanical assemblies from requirements definition through prototyping, testing, and volume manufacturing
- Create high-fidelity 3D models and fully defined 2D drawing packages in strict accordance with ASME Y14.5 (GD&T) standards
- Design parts across diverse fabrication processes: precision CNC machining, weldments, sheet metal, injection molding, composite layups, and structural adhesive bonding
- Apply first-principles engineering and FEA/hand calculations to validate structural, thermal, vibrational, and tolerance-stackup performance under harsh operational conditions
- Perform 1D/3D tolerance stacks, DFMEAs, and tool-access assessments early in development to de-risk production bottlenecks
- Build physical prototypes, author detailed test plans, and run functional testing (environmental, dynamic, bench-top, or live arena/range tests)
- Collaborate with Electrical, Manufacturing, Quality, Safety, and Test teams to solve urgent hardware bottlenecks
**Required Qualifications:**
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related discipline
- 2+ years of professional mechanical design experience taking physical hardware from concept through fabrication and functional test
- Proficiency in parametric 3D CAD (NX, SolidWorks, or Creo) and modern PLM/PDM environments (e.g., Teamcenter)
- Working knowledge of engineering drawings and practical application of ASME Y14.5 GD&T and tolerance stack-up analysis
- Hands-on prototyping and fabrication experience, including root-cause analysis of manufacturing and hardware defects
- Coursework or professional experience applying statics, dynamics, material selection, heat transfer, and structural mechanics to hardware design
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance
