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Salary: USD 129,000 - 171,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology, AI, autonomy, and computer vision. The Lethality team designs, builds, tests, and fields mechanical warhead and ordnance systems that integrate directly with Anduril platforms.
You will design new mechanical hardware from requirements and early concepts through detailed CAD, drawings, fabrication, assembly, and test. You'll work directly with manufacturing teams, technicians, analysis, and test engineers to identify problems and drive iterations. Your responsibilities include turning engineering ideas into manufacturable products by making practical decisions around materials, tolerances, interfaces, manufacturing methods, cost, and assembly. You will integrate your hardware into larger systems by partnering with vehicle, systems, safety, and other engineering teams to resolve interfaces and technical tradeoffs.
The role offers significant hands-on involvement: you'll see your designs become real hardware, participate in live testing, and develop specialized expertise in warhead and ordnance engineering alongside experienced technical leaders. You'll progress from defined components and workstreams toward increasingly independent subsystem design and decision-making.
The team is highly hands-on and built for engineers who want to design new products, solve difficult problems, and see their decisions become real hardware. You do not need to arrive as a warhead expert—the company is looking for strong mechanical engineers with practical design experience, sound engineering judgment, curiosity, and the ability to learn a highly specialized domain quickly.
REQUIREMENTS:
- BS in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related technical field
- 1+ year of practical, end-to-end mechanical product design experience
- Demonstrated experience taking a new mechanical product or design through multiple stages of development (concept, CAD, drawings, fabrication, assembly, testing, iteration)
- Strong mechanical design fundamentals: materials, tolerances, interfaces, manufacturing processes, design for manufacturability
- Professional CAD experience creating mechanical parts, assemblies, and engineering drawings; ability to explain design decisions, tradeoffs, and how test/engineering data informed the design
- Ability to work onsite in Costa Mesa, travel for testing as required, and obtain/maintain a U.S. security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with NX, Teamcenter, or comparable CAD/PLM tools
- Experience applying GD&T, tolerance analysis, design for CNC machining or precision manufacturing
- Experience developing hardware in fast-paced R&D or new-product-development environments
- Background in aerospace, defense, space, robotics, automotive, or other complex physical-product industries
- Experience supporting mechanical, environmental, dynamic, or system-level testing and using results to improve design
- Exposure to ordnance, munitions, energetics, explosives, weapons systems, or defense hardware
