CAD Drafter
- Pay
- $99,000 – $130,000 per year
- Location
- Costa Mesa, CA · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid-level
- Listed
- 22 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Siemens NX
- Siemens Teamcenter
- ASME Y14.5 GD&T
- mechanical drawings
Also useful
- high volume manufacturing
- stackup analysis
Stated benefits & perks
- Health
About the role
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold.
Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
Why We're Here
We are looking for a CAD Drafter to support our mechanical design and configuration management efforts. This role keeps our engineering data accurate and release-ready — maintaining complex assemblies and their derivative configurations, turning engineering direction into clean drawings, and keeping the engineering Bill of Materials aligned with configuration management board decisions. You will work day to day with design engineering, performance engineering, and sourcing to make sure design intent is captured correctly and new components make it into production on schedule.
What You'll Do
- 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
Required Qualifications
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
Pay and benefits
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
Benefits
- At Anduril, we invest in our people.
- Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.
- For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams
Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.
To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:
- No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.
- Please always verify communications:
- Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an @anduril.com address.
- Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency's authenticity by reaching out to.
- Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.
- What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.
Data Privacy
By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process.
This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency.
Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security.
From Anduril's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 18, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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The CAD Drafter posting at Anduril states compensation of $99,000 – $130,000 per year. It is listed as a full-time position. Final pay may depend on location, experience, and interview evaluation on Anduril's official career site.
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