Cleanroom Manager, Space
Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · USD 146,000-194,000 · 1+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 1+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)
- Salary
- USD 146,000-194,000 · Base salary
About the role
- Anduril’s Space Manufacturing team is seeking a Cleanroom Manager to own the day-to-day operation, readiness, and discipline of Space Manufacturing lab spaces across multiple locations.
- This is a hands-on ownership role for someone who wants to be the person the floor relies on to keep demanding lab and cleanroom environments operating to spec in a fast-paced, resource-limited environment.
Responsibilities
- Own the daily operation and readiness of all three Space Manufacturing lab spaces, including gowning/anterooms, air showers, test bays, subassembly and assembly zones, and storage.
- Own the contamination-control program for each cleanroom (graded ISO 5–8), covering gowning protocols, continuous particle monitoring, cleanroom certification cadence, and consumables stock and flow.
- Manage lab equipment, assets, and material flow across sites, including asset tracking, calibration and metrology scheduling, preventive maintenance, tool/fixture readiness, and receiving/kitting/stores flow.
- Serve as the day-to-day lab point of contact for safety, enforcing safe work practices and overseeing hazardous-material and specialty-gas handling and storage.
- Serve as the lab’s voice to corporate facilities and shared services to coordinate on AHUs, environmental monitoring, compressed and specialty gases, repairs, moves, and space changes.
- Drive lab standards and documentation, including cleanroom operating procedures, gowning and contamination-control work instructions, and safety procedures.
- Lead the transition of work into the new facility as it comes online, planning space and systems and managing the wind-down of temporary space.
- Partner with AI&T, manufacturing engineering, and program teams to sequence work across sites and keep WIP moving.
- Operate as a working lead, performing hands-on lab, cleanroom, and equipment work directly while helping hire, mentor, and direct technicians and specialists.
Requirements
- 5+ years operating or managing a manufacturing lab, cleanroom, or comparable controlled production environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, a technical/science discipline, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience operating or managing an ISO-classified cleanroom (ISO 5–8 or equivalent) or other contamination-controlled environment.
- 2+ years working with cleanroom systems, including environmental and particle monitoring, gowning discipline, certification requirements, and HVAC/AHU working knowledge.
- Hands-on safety experience with hazardous-material and compressed/specialty-gas handling and storage, including 1+ year acting as a floor- or lab-level safety point of contact.
- Experience managing lab equipment, a calibration/metrology program, and asset tracking across 50+ tools/assets, plus inventory flow.
- Experience owning readiness for 2+ distinct lab or cleanroom spaces at once, including coordinating moves and stand-up of new space.
- 2+ years leading or mentoring a team (formal management or team-lead) while staying hands-on.
- Experience building and enforcing procedures and keeping a lab audit ready.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Preferred qualifications
- 2+ years in aerospace, defense, semiconductor, medical-device, or optics/sensor manufacturing.
- Familiarity with ISO 5 (Class 100) operations and open-die / optical / sensor assembly cleanliness requirements.
- Experience standing up a new lab or cleanroom, or bringing 1+ new cleanroom phases/areas online.
- Familiarity with quality and workmanship standards relevant to the work (e.g., IPC-610/620, AS9100, NASA-STD-8739 series).
- Experience coordinating EHS programs and specialty-gas / hazmat storage at scale.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package covering health, recovery, and more available at little to no cost to employees
Workplace
- Willing to work on-site full-time in a fast-paced hardware environment.
