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Anduril

Builds autonomous weapons for the US and allies

Technical Project Manager - Machine Vision, Manufacturing Automation

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCosta Mesa, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.
  • Must be eligible for a U.S. security clearance.
  • A bachelor's degree in engineering or a technical field, or equivalent practical experience, is required.
  • At least 3 years of experience managing technical projects or programs in a hardware, manufacturing, automation, or equipment-deployment environment is required.
  • Demonstrated success delivering technical projects on schedule across engineering and operations stakeholders, with clear ownership of scope, schedule, and cost, is required.
  • Experience translating ambiguous stakeholder needs into written requirements, acceptance criteria, and test plans that engineers can build against is required.
  • Ability to collaborate with engineers, technicians, operators, and senior leadership is required.
  • Must be comfortable working on an active factory floor, including occasional off-shift support during installation and buy-off, and traveling between Anduril manufacturing sites as required.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with product lines to evaluate pain points, failure matrices, and current inspection and rework burden; quantify baseline escape rate, inspection hours, scrap, and rework cost so each deployment has a measurable rationale and defensible return before engineering time is committed.
  • Work with machine vision engineers to develop technical design documentation, including requirements, acceptance criteria, integration constraints, and the test plan that verifies system performance before handoff to the factory floor.
  • Forecast scope creep and ensure product lines understand solution capabilities and limitations, including as designs and processes change.
  • Manage delivery dates across concurrent machine vision deployments and build schedules that account for optics and hardware lead times, engineering capacity, and available factory downtime windows.
  • Communicate hurdles, risks, and milestones to Automation management and supported product lines.
  • Coordinate the cross-functional engagement needed to deliver machine vision solutions to the factory floor across manufacturing and quality engineering, controls, IT and infrastructure, facilities, and product lines.
  • Drive installation, acceptance testing, and operator training; establish documentation, spares, and escalation paths to keep systems working; and feed recurring failures into the team’s roadmap.
  • Create a repeatable deployment playbook covering intake, prioritization criteria, documentation templates, and deployment metrics so the team can serve more product lines without adding a coordinator for every project.

Desired Qualifications

  • Hands-on exposure to machine vision or industrial automation platforms such as Cognex, Keyence, MVTec Halcon, OpenCV, or comparable platforms.
  • Experience integrating robotics, programmable logic controllers and control systems, fixturing, or automated test equipment.
  • Experience in a manufacturing environment spanning new product introduction through rate production, particularly high-mix lines where the design is still changing.
  • Familiarity with quality methods including failure mode and effects analysis, measurement system analysis and gage repeatability and reproducibility, Cp/Cpk, statistical process control, and structured root-cause analysis.
  • Experience working with manufacturing execution systems, enterprise resource planning, or supervisory control and data acquisition systems, and human-machine interface platforms such as Ignition.
  • Familiarity with basic networking architecture, including static IP addressing, virtual LANs, and communication protocols.
  • Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Lucid, Airtable, and other project tracking tools.
  • Prior work in an export-controlled, regulated, or defense manufacturing environment.
  • Demonstrated interest in national security issues and defense technologies.

About the Company

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Anduril

Builds autonomous weapons for the US and allies

Anduril builds autonomous weapons, such as drones, cruise missiles, and robot submarines, for the US military and its allies, often developing them with its own money before any order arrives. In 2024 it beat Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman for an Air Force contract to develop Fury, a pilotless jet that flies alongside crewed fighters. Its Lattice software merges camera and radar feeds into one live map and lets a few operators direct many drones and weapons at once, including other companies' systems. Governments buy its systems under contract, and Anduril builds much of the hardware in its own factories. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey co-founded Anduril in 2017, and it is based in Costa Mesa, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Private
Total funding
$11.5B
Headquarters
Costa Mesa, CA
Founded
2017

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