Electrical Sustainment Engineer — RCA & Reliability

Jobless; Costa Mesa, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking an Electrical Product Sustainment Engineer to keep production running smoothly after field deployment. You will triage failures, drive root-cause investigations, and implement design and process updates to improve yield and reliability.

In this fast-paced role, you’ll work with Quality, Supply Chain, and Production Operations to maintain schedules and surface issues that threaten builds, ensuring critical systems stay reliable and scalable for

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Secret security clearance is required.
• 1–3+ years in hardware product development, sustainment, or manufacturing engineering.
• Experience with root-cause analysis methods (8D, 5 Whys, fishbone, FMEA).
• Ability to read schematics and interpret interfaces (Ethernet, CAN, I²C, SPI, PCIe, USB).
• Proficiency with data analysis tools (Excel, SQL, Python, JMP).
• Cross-functional collaboration with Quality, Supply Chain, and Production Operations.

Responsibilities

• Triage product failures from production and the field, prioritizing by severity and population impact.
• Drive root cause investigations down to the electrical component and PCB fabrication level as needed, landing corrective actions as process or design updates.
• Collect, manage, and analyze failure and field data to quantify population‑level impact and trends.
• Work cross‑functionally with Quality, Supply Chain, and Production Operations to keep builds on plan
• Surface and escalate issues that threaten the build schedule, and drive them to resolution
• Implement design and process changes that improve yield, reliability, and manufacturability
• Evaluate supplier product change notifications (PCNs) and assess their impact to the production environment, partnering with the design team to update the design as needed
• Support production test, debug, and failure analysis at the board and system level
• Track and report on sustainment metrics, corrective action status, and open production issues
• Work in a fast‑paced environment, having to juggle multiple concurrent projects and customers

Skills

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional work

Electrical troubleshooting

Schematic reading

Data analysis

PCB/board knowledge

Tools

PLM/ERP systems

CAPA processes

SPC

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking an Electrical Product Sustainment Engineer to keep production running smoothly after field deployment. You will triage failures, drive root-cause investigations, and implement design and process updates to improve yield and reliability.

In this fast-paced role, you’ll work with Quality, Supply Chain, and Production Operations to maintain schedules and surface issues that threaten builds, ensuring critical systems stay reliable and scalable for