CAD Drafter

Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · USD 99,000-130,000 · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026

At a glance

The CAD Drafter supports mechanical design and configuration management efforts at Anduril Industries.
This role maintains complex assemblies, creates clean engineering drawings, and keeps engineering data accurate and release-ready.
You will collaborate day-to-day with design engineering, performance engineering, and sourcing teams to ensure design intent and production schedules are met.

Maintain complex assemblies and derivative configurations of those assemblies
Conduct interference studies prior to release of assemblies
Update drawings based on direction from design and performance engineers
Place new components in assemblies
Update engineering Bill of Materials based on decisions of configuration management board
Coordinate with sourcing, design engineering, and configuration management on the cut in dates of new components and assemblies

Experience with CAD in Siemens NX
Experience working in Siemens Teamcenter
Proficient in mechanical drawings, ASME Y14.5 GD&T
Good mechanical intuition - excellent at understanding how components interact in larger mechanical systems
Excellent attention to detail
U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export-controlled data

Experience in aerospace industry
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or relevant
Experience in mechanical design of components from early conceptual phase into production
Detailed assembly stackup development
Experience working in high volume manufacturing environment

Competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers
Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees