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Anduril Industries

Controls Engineer, Manufacturing Automation

Costa Mesa, California, United StatesFrom $171kfull-timemidAdded yesterday

About this role

Anduril Industries seeks a Controls Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain manufacturing automation systems including PLC/HMI platforms, Ignition SCADA applications, and OT/IT infrastructure. You'll work across the full lifecycle of production controls — from architecture through commissioning — while ensuring OT cybersecurity and collaborating with cross-functional teams in a defense manufacturing environment.

What you'll do

  • Develop and debug PLC code on Allen-Bradley and Siemens platforms for high-volume manufacturing
  • Build and maintain Ignition Perspective SCADA applications with tag architecture, alarms, and historian configuration
  • Design and troubleshoot production OT networking (MQTT, OPC UA, TCP/IP) down to packet-level diagnostics
  • Deploy and sustain OT/IT server infrastructure including Ignition gateways, historians, and MQTT brokers
  • Implement OT security practices including air-gapped design, network segmentation, and server hardening
  • Partner with IT, Security, and Manufacturing Engineering on cross-functional initiatives and design reviews

What they're looking for

  • PLC programming (Allen-Bradley and/or Siemens)
  • Ignition SCADA development and gateway modules
  • OT networking protocols (MQTT, OPC UA, TCP/IP, industrial Ethernet)
  • OT cybersecurity and network segmentation
  • Server infrastructure and AWS EC2 management
  • Network cabling and switch configuration
  • IEC 62443 and NIST 800-82 compliance knowledge
  • Python or scripting for automation

Benefits

  • Competitive equity grants included in majority of offers
  • Top-tier health and wellness benefits
  • Career growth into deeper system ownership
  • Hands-on work with cutting-edge defense technology
  • Collaborative environment with senior engineers
  • Defense industry experience and security clearance opportunity
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Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries builds autonomous defense systems including underwater vehicles, unmanned aircraft, and electronic warfare platforms for the Department of Defense. The company is hiring across mechanical engineering, mission operations, software development, technical leadership, and advanced manufacturing roles to support the design, deployment, and production of these mission-critical systems.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a complex PLC project you've led — what challenges did you face with timing or sequencing, and how did you debug it?
  • Describe your experience deploying Ignition SCADA applications. How did you architect your tag hierarchy and alarm pipelines for scalability?