About this Product Development Process Engineer role at Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. 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. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. 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.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Anduril’s Product Development Process (PDP) team is seeking a Product development process engineer to join our organization to support hardware product development. This role will work with our broader Engineering and Production team to ensure we are architecting robust and adaptable processes for our growing hardware product portfolio.
As a Product Development Process Engineer at Anduril, you will work within the product development organization to help develop and maintain process strategies for the design and development workflows. You will work cross-functionally with design, product development, tools development, and training teams to ensure our process is designed and accessible by the various engineering teams. You will serve as a critical technical expert and process expert on design and product maturity best practices.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Process Requirements Management
- Collaborate with Design, Program, and Cross-Functional leads to align on best practices and standards.
- Develop PDP tool (GitHub, Party Bus, & Claude Collaboration)
- Gather key requirements and develop the architecture for how processes are used across the various impacted teams. Deliverables will include releasing and maintaining these processes in the PDP tool.
- Collaborate closely with our tool development team to create a user interface tool that is used for a large user base, across various products.
- Define clear process requirements and expectations for design and product development teams based on collaboration feedback and industry insight/experience.
- Own the central standards repository with key projects such as engineering design standards & analysis standards, product maturity framework, etc.
- Partner with Engineering and cross-functional leadership on best design practices, test practices, and entry/exit criteria for qualification & build testing and design review gates.
- Centralize requirements into clear resources for the functional teams to leverage during R&D, Design Review Preparations, Qualification Campaign definition, and production readiness.
Process Development and Rollout
- Draft process workflows, user guides, and formal specifications/standard operating procedures to instruct the various teams on usage of the design and development resources.
- Collect feedback and buy in on key process artifacts, and lead continuous improvement initiatives.
- Lead and coordinate the release and department rollout of new processes.
Training, Documentation & Continuous Improvement
- Support development of training guides, modules, training videos, etc.
- Coordinate release kickoff meetings and training workshops.
- Continually monitor adoption with each key stakeholder and associated leadership.
- Develop feedback loop/release update process and communications strategy.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of Industry Experience as a Design Engineer, Development Engineer, Process Development Engineer, Product Manager, or similar role.
- Must have Mechanical or Electrical design/development experience and expertise bringing new products to market.
- Experience working on advanced hardware systems.
- Experience working with IT tools relevant to design and development (CAD, PLM, etc.).
- Experience or familiarity with relevant defense industry standards and compliance.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams to establish requirements.
- Must be a US Person.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- M.S. Degree in technical engineering field.
- Able to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret Clearance
- Experience designing / architecting custom design and development tools.
- Experience with training and document creation.
- Project management experience or certification in project management.
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
Benefits
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
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