Andurilindustries

Andurilindustries

Senior Industrial Engineer, Simulation

Costa Mesa, California, United States · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$146k-$194kDetected 1 day ago
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About the role

  • The right person thrives in a fast-paced, resource-limited environment, is flexible to change and ambiguity, and can act as the connective tissue among operational stakeholders to bring a production system forward.
  • The mandate is bigger than any single study.
  • Done right, simulation de-risks capital expenditures, accelerates new-product-introduction (NPI) ramps, and arms leadership with validated production models and quantified risk - turning manufacturing predictability into a strategic advantage.

Responsibilities

  • Own Anduril's discrete event simulation and operations-research capability for manufacturing as a long-lived, foundational asset - architecting it for maintainability, extensibility, and a high useful lifetime rather than single-use analysis.
  • Design the data pipeline that keeps models current: define how live production data (cycle times, yields, routings, downtime, WIP, labor) flows in so models continuously reflect reality and can generate updated, feasible production plans and schedules as conditions change.
  • Lead the highest-stakes simulation studies: capacity modeling, NPI ramp simulation, capital-investment analysis with quantified ROI, line balancing and flow optimization, design-change impact analysis, and production risk/scenario planning (demand variability, supplier disruption, equipment failure via MTBF/MTTR).
  • Own the design of new production lines and workstation layouts for both low-rate and full-rate production, using a data-driven, simulation-backed approach.
  • flag constraints with the appropriate owners across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Quality and drive them to resolution.
  • Establish the standards: validation against actuals (a ±5% simulated-vs-actual target on primary metrics), version control, assumption tracking, calibration methods, and a repeatable, phased methodology (scope → build → validate → analyze → hand off) that balances rigor with the speed manufacturing decisions demand.
  • Make models digestible to non-specialists - build the interfaces, dashboards, and documentation that let program, operations, and finance stakeholders self-serve answers and trust the results.
  • Drive the migration of legacy planning tools (analyst spreadsheets and single-file apps backed by Excel) onto a centralized, database-backed, hosted platform so the whole organization plans against one source of truth instead of divergent local copies.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience building simulation and/or operations-research models used to drive real operational or capital decisions in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
  • Ability to read technical documentation such as facility drawings, assembly drawings, technical specifications, and manufacturing procedures for electronic, mechanical, and electromechanical assembly.
  • Ability to work in ambiguity and communicate uncertainty, translating technical output into a clear recommendation for non-technical decision-makers.
  • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's or advanced degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
  • Experience standing up a centralized modeling or analytics capability from scratch - architecture, data integration, governance, validation protocols, and adoption.
  • Experience in high-mix / complex manufacturing, production ramp, or capacity-planning environments, and with Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, and Six Sigma principles in action.
  • Experience integrating models with enterprise data platforms and systems (data warehouses, ERP, WMS, MES, Palantir Foundry, or a hosted Postgres-backed platform).
  • Demonstrated use of AI tools (e.g., Claude, LLM-based coding assistants) to accelerate modeling, data work, or analysis - with a healthy skepticism about validating their output.
  • Prior experience mentoring analysts/engineers or setting technical standards for a team.

Compensation

  • $146,000 - $194,000 USD

Benefits

  • Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes
  • As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

Company info

  • Anduril's Manufacturing Team is seeking a Senior Industrial Engineer to own and scale our manufacturing simulation capability.
  • The Manufacturing Team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware - including static equipment, moving ground equipment, sensors, undersea, and flight vehicles - and scaling these products across our production footprint, including our new 5M sq ft manufacturing facility, Arsenal-1.
  • Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering delivers simulation as an internal service:
  • validated digital twins of our production systems that model capacity, quantify constraints, stress-test production plans, and evaluate design and capital-investment trade-offs *before* physical implementation.
  • This role sets the standard for how that capability is architected, validated, and consumed across the company, in close collaboration with Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Program Management, and Business Operations.
  • At Anduril, we invest in our people.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U
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