Anduril Industries offers a comprehensive benefits package and a collaborative, hands-on culture designed to support your health, recovery, and growth. This onsite role in Costa Mesa, California, centers on the Forge platform within the ProductionOS team, shaping end-to-end experiences for manufacturing and onsite workflows, and maturing the design system for factory environments. Salary for this role ranges from USD 166,000 to USD 220,000 per year.
The Product Designer for Forge will own the full design lifecycle, from discovery through implementation, and will contribute to product and design roadmaps. You will use storytelling to align stakeholders and influence the end-to-end experiences that underpin critical manufacturing and onsite processes. The position balances short-term tactical bets with meaningful progress toward long-term design system goals, and includes on-site research on shop floors to gain firsthand understanding of user needs. Travel up to 25% is required.
Responsibilities
- Help shape the product and design roadmap and participate in strategic decision-making.
- Lead the full design process from discovery and ideation to prototyping, testing, and rollout.
- Leverage narrative storytelling to align stakeholders with the design approach.
- Influence end-to-end experiences for essential manufacturing and on-site workflows.
- Balance quick wins with progress toward a scalable design system strategy.
- Collaborate with the central Product Design team to surface opportunities for shared practices and learnings.
- Build scalable components for mobile, tablet, and desktop that account for factory floors and high-throughput production settings.
- Advance the design system by creating reusable components to improve consistency and efficiency across platforms.
- Advocate for design decisions and establish design tenets that guide strategic work.
- Conduct on-site research on shop floors and workstations to gain firsthand insight into user needs, embracing Gemba principles.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software design experience.
- Strong attention to detail with mastery of visual and interaction design craftsmanship.
- Online portfolio showcasing multimodal experiences.
- Clear ability to articulate the why, process, and impact of your work.
- Travel up to 25% of the time.
- Defense experience is not required.
- Proficiency in visual design and interaction design, including micro-interactions and animations.
- Experience creating scalable components for various devices and environments.
- Experience developing and implementing design systems.
- Comfort with on-site research and understanding of manufacturing and production environments.
Technologies
- Figma
- Sketch
- Adobe Creative Suite
About the team
ProductionOS, a unit within ArsenalOS, builds software that accelerates the production and delivery of customer-ready hardware. Forge is the flagship platform, a growing, home-grown system that supports the receipt, manufacturing, deployment, and maintenance of Anduril hardware worldwide. The team seeks a Product Designer to elevate immersion, efficiency, and consistency across Forge experiences to enable Anduril to fulfill its mission.
Preferred qualifications
- Familiarity with hardware-related industries such as supply chain, manufacturing, or logistics.
- Advanced knowledge of visual design principles including layout, color, typography, and Gestalt.
- Experience with design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe Creative Suite.
- Understanding of accessibility standards and their application in design.
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