Electrical Engineering Lead – Autonomy & Flight Systems

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking an Electrical Engineering technical lead and functional manager for the Tactical Effects division (TFX). The role focuses on rapid prototyping and scaling autonomous drone and payload systems for defense applications, working across engineering, operations, and production teams.

The candidate should have 10+ years in embedded design, extensive experience with mixed-signal circuits, and leadership in an aerospace/defense environment. U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 10+ years designing, testing, and troubleshooting embedded systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a technical team through concept to flight delivery for R&D/prototype design.
• Guide architecture trades, board design, validation, and system integration.
• Troubleshoot across electrical and software boundaries with lab equipment.
• Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, software, firmware, and test engineers to deliver products.
• Mature product designs for scale and mass production.

Skills

Embedded systems

Team leadership

Hardware debugging

Test equipment

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Altium

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Debuggers

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking an Electrical Engineering technical lead and functional manager for the Tactical Effects division (TFX). The role focuses on rapid prototyping and scaling autonomous drone and payload systems for defense applications, working across engineering, operations, and production teams.

The candidate should have 10+ years in embedded design, extensive experience with mixed-signal circuits, and leadership in an aerospace/defense environment. U.S.