Materials and Process Development Manager, Maritime NPI
Santa Ana · Santa Ana, CA (OC-42) · USD 146,000-194,000 · 10+ years experience · Posted Oct 14, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 10+ years experience
- Location
- Santa Ana · Santa Ana, CA (OC-42)
- Salary
- USD 146,000-194,000 · Base salary
About the role
- Anduril Industries is seeking a Materials and Process Development Manager for Maritime NPI to join a rapidly growing team in Santa Ana, CA.
- The role involves working in a cutting-edge production environment to advance maritime manufacturing technologies and drive efficient, rapid, on-time production for new maritime vehicles.
- The right person will develop innovative, adaptive, and flexible approaches to design and manufacturing while integrating solutions across multiple platforms and stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Create and own the materials and processes development team's various solutions for new technologies supporting product and factory development.
- Support the future production system creation, integrating new materials and processes including technologies to improve production flow while enhancing product performance, space allocation, and resource requirements.
- Question requirements in product and production system design and facility creation to ensure the most cost and schedule effective solutions for factories.
- Support design, construction, commissioning, and start-up of production systems at new factory sites, ensuring successful delivery of the factory and products off the line.
- Provide strategic leadership on product processes, materials, and technologies.
- Buy down risk to meet production performance and timelines in new facilities.
- Lead hands-on by setting an example and expediting project completion.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience as manager for materials and processes technology development, manufacturing engineering, and/or production/process engineering.
- Technology development experience in materials, automation, prototyping, and processes.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Preferred qualifications
- Active Secret or Top Secret security clearance.
- Prior work with architecture and infrastructure engineering partners and/or general contractors to build, improve or modify production facilities.
- Process improvement, including justification of return on investment for process or operational changes.
- Application of new technologies, new processes, lean manufacturing, and linear flow principles in a production environment.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees supporting health, recovery, and whatever comes next, available at little to no cost
