Senior Industrial Engineer, Simulation
About this role
The Manufacturing Design Team at Anduril Industries builds advanced defense hardware like static equipment, ground vehicles, sensors, and flight vehicles, scaling production across facilities including Arsenal-1 using Lattice OS. Industrial Engineering delivers simulation models that quantify capacity, identify constraints, stress-test production plans, and evaluate capital investment trade-offs before physical implementation.
This senior position owns and scales the enterprise manufacturing simulation capability as a durable, decision-grade asset. The person in this role will balance managing a centralized service intake system with hands-on integration into the Manufacturing Development Plan process to model line designs and rate-readiness scenarios. An ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment with ambiguity, possesses strong operations research expertise, and effectively collaborates across supply chain, engineering, quality, and operations to turn manufacturing predictability into a strategic advantage.
What you will do
- Own and architect enterprise discrete event simulation and operations-research capabilities as long-lived foundational assets for manufacturing line design.
- Build and manage a centralized intake and prioritization process to scope and resource high-impact simulation requests from across the organization.
- Integrate simulation into the Manufacturing Development Plan process from early-stage concepts to mature production validation.
- Capture physical constraints, business rules, and detailed decision logic into validated models in close collaboration with material flow, layout, and labor standards teams.
- Design data pipelines that ingest live production metrics like cycle times, yields, downtime, and labor to keep models aligned with reality.
- Lead high-stakes simulation studies including capacity modeling, NPI ramp simulation, capital-investment analysis, line balancing, and production risk planning.
- Establish rigorous validation standards aiming for a plus or minus 5 percent variance between simulated and actual primary metrics.
What you need
- Demonstrated professional experience in industrial engineering focusing on manufacturing simulation and operations research.
- Expertise in discrete event simulation, Monte Carlo methods, and statistical optimization models such as regression and queuing.
- Proven ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary groups including supply chain, engineering, quality, and program management.
- Experience designing data pipelines and working with live production data in manufacturing environments.
- Strong capability in translating complex simulation outputs into clear, defensible recommendations for leadership decision-making.
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What is the salary range for this role?
The salary for this position is $146,000 — $194,000 USD.
Where is the job located?
The role is located in Costa Mesa, California, United States.
What type of employment is this?
This is a full-time position.
The application is on the official Anduril Industries careers page.
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