Automation Engineer, Manufacturing Automation
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Overview
Anduril is seeking an Automation Engineer to join their Manufacturing Automation team in Costa Mesa, California. The role involves designing and deploying automated manufacturing systems, focusing on advanced technology for military capabilities. 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.
What You’ll Do
- •Own controls systems end-to-end as technical system owner — architecture, PLC/HMI development, commissioning, proof of rate, and sustainment handoff
- •Deploy and maintain OT server infrastructure including, MQTT brokers, and jump hosts with disciplined backup and change-control practices
- •Design and maintain OT networking stack for production (MQTT, OPC UA, TCP/IP) and diagnose protocol, timing, and VLAN segmentation issues using packet-level analysis
- •Architect, develop, and debug PLC code on Allen-Bradley and/or Siemens platforms, producing structured, documented code suitable for high-volume manufacturing
- •Apply defense-grade OT security practices — air-gapped design, IEC 62443/NIST 800-82 segmentation, Purdue-model layering, server hardening, and secure remote access
- •Partner with IT, Security, FactoryOS, and Manufacturing Engineering on cross-functional initiatives and represent controls team in design reviews and cybersecurity buy-offs
- •Rj45 wiring, configure switches, automating system backups, IT and OT FWs configs, AWS EC2s.
Benefits
- •Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
- •Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.
Required Qualifications
- •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Information Technology, or related field
- •4+ years of experience in controls and automation in a production environment
- •Strong in PLC programming on Allen-Bradley and/or Siemens platforms
- •Proficient in OPC UA, MQTT Engine/Distributor/Transmission
- •Proficient across the OT stack — MQTT, OPC UA, TCP/IP, industrial Ethernet, VLANs, switching/routing — with fluency in packet-level analysis
- •Working knowledge of OT cybersecurity — air-gapped networks, network segmentation, server hardening, secure remote access
- •Experience integrating with MES and QMS
- •Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.