2027 Industrial Engineer Intern
Ashville · Costa Mesa · Ashville, OH (Arsenal 1) · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · USD 28-40 / hour · Internship · Posted Sep 22, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Internship
- Location
- Ashville · Costa Mesa · Ashville, OH (Arsenal 1) · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)
- Salary
- USD 28-40 / hour
About the role
- Anduril Industries is seeking Industrial Engineering Interns to join the summer internship program.
- Interns will work alongside a team of Industrial Engineers to optimize manufacturing operations for quality, reliability, speed, and asset utilization.
- The role involves taking a data-driven approach to designing production lines and associated manufacturing processes.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead projects to optimize and improve systems, processes, and manufacturing operations, leveraging a data driven approach.
- Proactively identify opportunities for improvement including high variation processes, imbalances and bottlenecks caused by line layout, equipment constraints, staffing shortages.
- Work with the appropriate owners across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Quality to prioritize and drive to resolution.
- Translate and drive action from metrics, KPIs, and reporting associated with production line health and efficiency, such as cycle time, throughput rate, capacity, utilization, and first pass yield.
- Produce and maintain capacity plans, balanced line layouts, staffing allocations, and time standards for manufacturing work content.
- Work across domains, from execution-based work to the strategic future state of a product or business line.
Requirements
- Must be pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Industrial Engineering or any related field.
- Must be returning to school at the end of the internship to continue academic studies for at least one quarter or semester.
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities; U.S. clearance eligibility may be required depending on program.
- Ability to complete an in-person 12-week internship in one of our offices in summer 2027.
Preferred qualifications
- Prior work designing and/or setting up new production lines or factories - from process mapping through to collaborating with infrastructure design partners and detailed workstation design
- Prior work or project experience with engineering design software, such as AutoCad or LucidChart, to develop factory layouts & support line balancing exercises
- Prior work or project experience conducting manufacturing time studies
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing and/or Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma principles either through previous coursework or in practice
- Experience interacting with data via data visualization applications or SQL queries
- Ability to completely own a value chain from start to finish, measuring each step of the process, creating actionable tasks that culminated in a significant and sustainable business improvement
- Prior experience with ERP, WMS and MES systems
- Prior experience with production process simulation using Discrete Event Simulation software (PlantSim, Simio, FlexSim, or similar)
Workplace
- Offices located in Ashville, OH and Costa Mesa, CA.
Skills
- AutoCad
- LucidChart
- Lean Manufacturing
- Continuous Improvement
- Six Sigma
- SQL
- ERP
- WMS
- MES
- PlantSim
- Simio
- FlexSim
