Lead Electrical Architect for Autonomous Aircraft Systems

Mosaic.tech; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Lead Electrical Engineer to own the electrical architecture for a next-generation autonomous rotorcraft program. You will guide design from concept through production and mentor a growing team of engineers.

You will lead cross-functional collaboration with electrical, mechanical, software, firmware, and test engineering, drive system interconnects, and ensure robust, high-reliability hardware across rapid field iterations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• 8+ years designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex board designs.
• Proven leadership of electrical design from concept to production.
• Deep knowledge of analog and digital electronics.
• Experience with test equipment and automated tests.
• Familiarity with interfaces like Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB.
• Experience with MCU/CPU/FPGA devices.
• Familiarity with Git, Github, JIRA.
• Altium or similar CAD tools for PCB design.
• Signal integrity and power integrity at system level.
• Battery systems design experience.
• High-reliability design with redundancy.
• RF systems exposure.
• Rapid payload/sensor integration leadership.
• High power electronics experience.
• Fieldable system design experience.
• Worst-case / uncertainty analysis expertise.
• Mentoring engineers and owning outcomes.
• Balancing multiple projects and priorities.
• Eligible for US Secret clearance.
• Willingness to travel 25%+

Responsibilities

• Own the electrical architecture and technical roadmap for a major subsystem or full vehicle platform.
• Lead full cycle PCB design across multiple boards/subsystems.
• Lead troubleshooting across electrical, firmware, and software boundaries.
• Drive payloads and subsystems across programs.
• Define system interconnect diagrams and wire harness architecture.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with multiple engineering teams.
• Operate and lead teams in a fast-paced development environment.
• Lead design reviews and sign-off on electrical designs.
• Own integration & testing strategy for rotorcraft systems through TRLs 3-8.
• Lead vehicle platform system design and establish engineering standards.
• Own requirements analysis, verification planning, and compliance strategy.
• Mentor Electrical Engineers and Senior Electrical Engineers.
• Partner with PM to inform scope, schedule, and resourcing.
• Represent electrical engineering in customer discussions and design reviews.

Skills

Electrical design

System integration

Analog & digital electronics

PCB design

Test equipment

Interfaces (Ethernet/CAN/I2C/SPI/PCIe/

MCU/CPU/FPGA

Git/Github/JIRA

PCB CAD (Altium/Eagle)

Signal integrity

Battery systems

High-reliability design

RF systems

Payload integration

High power electronics

Fieldable design

Worst-case analysis

Mentoring engineers

Project prioritization

Security clearance (US)

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

Eagle

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

JTAG

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks a Lead Electrical Engineer to own the electrical architecture for a next-generation autonomous rotorcraft program. You will guide design from concept through production and mentor a growing team of engineers.

You will lead cross-functional collaboration with electrical, mechanical, software, firmware, and test engineering, drive system interconnects, and ensure robust, high-reliability hardware across rapid field iterations.