Senior Electrical Engineer

Anduril Industries; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

A defense technology company is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer in Irvine, CA to lead the design of advanced electrical systems. This role involves owning electronic design, collaborating across teams, and ensuring reliability while meeting military specifications.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

Generous PTO plans

Paid caregiver and wellness leave

Mental health resources

Professional development stipend

Company-funded commuter benefits

Relocation assistance

Qualifications

• Able to develop clear documentation for designs.
• Experienced in full cycle PCB design.
• Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Serve as main contact for electrical integration activities.
• Collaborate with other engineers to optimize designs.
• Trade-off selections against size, weight, and power.

Skills

Design digital electronics

Troubleshooting hardware

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Altium Designer

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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.

About The Team

Anduril’s Air and Ground Deterrence (AGD) Division develops integrated robotic systems designed to provide multi-domain situational awareness and force protection across land, sea, and air. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly detect and identify potential threats. close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats.

Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the multidisciplinary Sentry Hardware team with AGD serves as the key system integrator of the Anduril Sentry Family of Systems (FoS). In particular, the Sentry Electrical Engineering Team drives end-to-end development, from electrical architecture and ruggedized hardware design to verification, integration, and test, ensuring scalable, production and mission-ready solutions that meet the performance, reliability, and survivability demands of the U.S. Military and other key stakeholders.

About The Job

The Sentry Engineering team builds hardware products and systems that leverage artificial intelligence to provide highly accurate, persistent autonomous awareness across land, sea and air. With an AI-enabled edge processing, continuous 360 pan / tilt capability, and a variety of radars and sensors, Sentry can autonomously identify, detect, and track objects of interest to bring increased awareness to borders, military bases, oil and gas pipelines, airports and other critical infrastructure.

We are looking for a Sr Electrical Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Irvine, CA. This role will own rapidly developed, ruggedized electronics design in addition to scaling legacy design concepts to support full-rate production. In this role, you will partner with our Architecture and Product Management team to help drive system requirements prior to owning full PCB and/or electrical system design. This will require identifying high risk areas, creating and validating electronics designs for embedded compute and/or power systems, and testing for long term-reliability while considering manufacturability and testability in the design.

If you are someone who enjoys designing mission-critical electrical circuit cards and integrated systems with the freedom to drive product development from often undefined requirements then this role is for you.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the main point of contact for electrical integration activities.
• Collaborate with mechanical engineers to optimize selection, design and integration of high power components, modules and distribution.
• Trade-off component and module selections against size, weight and power requirements.
• Collaborate with design team to achieve reliability goals at a system level in context of concepts of operation.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Ability to design digital & analog electronics from concept to functional prototype.
• Ability to troubleshoot existing hardware to find root cause of issues and implement improvements to improve the design
• Develop clear documentation to capture design requirements, specifications, test coverage, and test reports.
• Complete full cycle PCB design including collecting requirements, schematic design, component selection, completion of layout, bring-up, test, debug and integration with the system.
• Work closely with other mechanical, software, firmware, and test engineers to deliver fully functional products.
• Work in a fast-paced environment supporting new developments, active deployments, and customer operated hardware.
• Concurrently manage involvement in multiple projects at various stages
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 2+ years of experience designing, testing and troubleshooting complex board designs and products.
• Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, thermal chambers, current-probes, and automation of tests.
• Familiarity with switch mode power supply design and testing.
• Familiarity with standard interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB, etc.
• Familiarity with common MCU, CPU, FPGA devices and technologies.
• Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits.
• Exceptional organization and communication skills (both written and oral).
• Proficient with Altium Designer or equivalent electronic design automation design tools.
• Proficiency with scripting languages (Python, Matlab, etc.)
  
  

US Salary Range

$142,000—$213,000 USD

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:

• Platinum Healthcare Benefits: For U.S. roles, we offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
• For UK roles, Private Medical Insurance (PMI): Anduril will cover the full cost of the insurance premium for an employee and dependents.
• For AUS roles, Private health plan through Bupa: Coverage is fully subsidized by Anduril.
• Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Anduril, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
• Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a holiday hiatus in December, and highly competitive PTO plans.
• 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave to care for a family member, bond with your baby, or tend to your own medical condition.
• Family Planning & Parenting Support: Fertility (eg, IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carrier coverage with additional benefits and resources to provide support from planning to parenting.
• Mental Health Resources: We provide free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy, life coaching, and more. Additional work-life services, such as free legal and financial support, available to you as well.
• A professional development stipend is available to all Andurilians.
• Daily Meals and Provisions: For many of our offices this means breakfast, lunch and fully stocked micro-kitchens.
• Company-funded commuter benefits available based on your region.
• Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility).
• 401(k) retirement savings plan - both a traditional and Roth 401(k). (US roles only)
  

The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.

Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Anduril team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals, who together are disrupting industry norms by creating new paths towards the future of defense technology. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the CA Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. We actively encourage members of recognized minorities, women, Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply, and we work to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all applicants throughout the interview process. If you are someone passionate about working on problems that have a real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you!

To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing

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