Manufacturing Engineer Intern, Anduril Industries

Summer 2025

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Los Angeles

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Office located in Costa Mesa, CA

Anduril Industries

Hardware and software for national security

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Anduril Industries

Hardware and software for national security

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityEnterpriseDronesAerospace

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided
Los Angeles

More information about location

Office located in Costa Mesa, CA

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityEnterpriseDronesAerospace

Company mission

To defend against America's national security challenges to create a safer future for the nation.

Role

Who you are

  • The right person for this role can demonstrate past holistic ownership on solving a technical challenge with a creative, physical, solution that they either personally manufacturing or oversaw manufacturing on, in a fast-paced, resource-limited environment
  • Pursuing a degree in a technical field such as engineering, math, or a hard science
  • Must be a rising senior at the time of their internship and returning to school at the end of their internship to continue their academic studies for at least one quarter/semester
  • Demonstrated ability to creatively deliver electromechanical hardware in a resource-constrained environment
  • Demonstrated in-kind or direct team leadership skills, with backing examples
  • Personal experience physically manufacturing hardware via any means (machining, fabrication, soldering, assembly, etc.) including work on personal or extracurricular projects
  • A genuine interest in manufacturing and thirst for learning
  • U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data

Desirable

  • Internships or school related experience in a relevant field, preferably manufacturing or design of electromechanical hardware
  • PCBA fabrication experience including prior work with or setup/modification/monitoring SMT processes
  • Hands-on experience with R/C and/or autonomous flight vehicles, flight controllers, or other related control systems
  • Software scripting experience in any language
  • Familiarity with CAD software, Manufacturing Execution systems, and ERP/MRP systems

What the job involves

  • The Manufacturing Team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware, including static equipment, moving ground equipment, and flight vehicles
  • This responsibility includes everything in the manufacturing value-chain, including, but not limited to, Design for Manufacturability work, tool design & selection, process creation & optimization, vendor sourcing & interaction, quality planning, and work documentation associated with the hardware that the Manufacturing Engineer owns
  • Own a portion or all of the manufacturing value chain for a certain product or set of products
  • Work with technicians and other engineers hands-on, building prototype hardware
  • Develop novel tooling solutions for fabrication and assembly of Anduril Products
  • Develop process flows, breaking down large, complex assemblies into sub-parts and processes and building out their production lines
  • Write documentation required for successfully manufacturing their hardware at scale, such as work instructions, quality plans, inspection requirements, etc
  • Work with contract manufacturers across various disciplines (PCBA fab, metallic manufacturing, assembly, etc.) to develop repeatable, sustained processes for quick-turn development as well as at-scale production
  • Contribute to end-customer hardware mechanical or electrical design, including interconnects, board fabrication and inspection, etc
  • Travel to suppliers to do initial sourcing work, solve ongoing production issues, and implement quality procedures

Our take

Anduril makes hardware and software for defense agencies including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. Its hardware products include specialist drones with a long flight time and surveillance towers.

This hardware is tied together by proprietary software, the Lattice platform, which uses sensor fusion, machine learning, and mesh networking to integrate real-time data from Anduril hardware and third-party systems into a single, autonomous operating picture. While the hardware observes and detects, the software can make decisions as to the threat level of any anomalies, and so allow for observation and protection of an area or building with minimal manpower.

Anduril closed a Series E funding round in 2022 led by Valor Equity Partners. This funding was used for research and development of its autonomous defense products, such as the Roadrunner, a modular twin-jet powered autonomous vehicle that can take off and land vertically. Variants of the Roadrunner include defensive warhead armed interceptors which are the first drone weapons that can be retrieved after deployment. The company has also expanded to Australia where it is working in tandem with the Australian Defence Force to improve its military technology and infrastructure and is recruiting talent worldwide to support its rapidly growing portfolio of defense projects.

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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

68% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Jun 2024

$1.5bn

SERIES F

Dec 2022

$1.5bn

SERIES E

Total funding: $3.7bn

Company benefits

  • Full Family Health Coverage
  • 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave for All Caregivers
  • Family Planning & Support
  • Incentivized Time Off
  • Mental Health Resources
  • Financial Planning
  • Unlimited Provisions
  • Professional Development

Company HQ

Irvine Business Complex, Irvine, CA

Leadership

Brian Schimpf

(Co-founder & CEO)

Having studied at Cornell, they joined Palantir as an Engineer in 2007. They left after over 9 years in order to co-found Anduril in July 2017 as CEO.

Palmer Luckey

(Co-founder)

They founded Oculus VR in April 2012, where they worked until April 2017 when they co-founded Anduril.

Trae Stephens

(Co-founder)

Former Lead Data Analyst at LexisNexis for 2 years, prior to spending 5 at Palantir. They joined Founders Fund as a Partner in 2014, and co-founded Anduril in 2017.

Matt Grimm

(Co-founder & COO)

Studied Engineering at Cornell before working as a Booz Allen Hamilton Consultant and spending over 6 years at Palantir as a Forward Deployed Engineer. They worked at Mithril Capital Management and Classy.org before co-founding Anduril in 2017.

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