Senior Electrical Engineer, Manufacturing Test (Active Clearance)

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

Generous time off and holiday hiatus

Professional development reimbursement

Relocation Assistance

Job summary

A defense technology company in Costa Mesa is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer. This role involves designing and building complex systems and PCBA platforms for product testing. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree and at least 8 years of industry experience in product design. The position offers a competitive salary range of $146,000—$194,000 USD, along with comprehensive healthcare, retirement savings options, and generous paid time off.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience with emphasis on product designs that have gone to manufacturing.
• Expertise in PCBA Design and ability to fabricate designs.
• Familiarity with electronics test equipment such as oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build complex systems and PCBA platforms to test products.
• Integrate designs into Anduril's PDM systems.
• Design and source PCB Assemblies and circuit board test fixtures.

Skills

Product design

Electronics Design

PCBA Design

Data acquisition

FPGA

MCU

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics, Computer Engineering, or related fields

Master’s of Science in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or related field

Tools

Altium

Cadence

PADs

Test Equipment

Job description

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 Job

As an Senior Electrical Engineer in the Manufacturing organization you will design and build complex systems and PCBA platforms to test our products. Data acquisition and physical layer interfaces using FPGA, MCU, and off-the-shelf equipment will enable testing our systems to stringent standards ensuring that we are consistently shipping the highest quality products to our customers. You will work in a multi‑disciplinary design team, managing requirements, capturing custom circuits, and designing complex assemblies and harnesses. You will work with firmware engineers to enable board support packages for embedded Linux, and bring up MCU RTOS platforms. In this role you’ll need to think creatively and come up with solutions to solve difficult testing problems and push to continuously improve our methods of automation, throughput, user interfaces, and data analytics.

What You’ll Do

• Build things that test things. Design Circuits and Schematics that will be built into test automation platforms.
• Integrate your designs into Anduril’s PDM systems. You will follow the same process for component design and release that our product design teams use.
• Design and source PCB Assemblies with varying complexity – from FPGA based data acquisition boards, to MCU platform data interfaces, breakout boards, wiring harnesses, or peripheral modules.
• Architect and source circuit board test fixtures, integrating your designs with internally developed and off-the-shelf data acquisition equipment.
• Build internal library for test circuit for data acquisition, leverage your expertise for DFM / DFT.
• Bring up, Debug, and Characterize circuits, low speed interfaces (I2C, SPI, CAN, etc.) and high speed signals (RF, memory, USB).

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics, Computer Engineering, or related fields.
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience with emphasis on product designs that have gone to manufacturing.
• Experience with Professional Electronics Design packages (Altium, Cadence, PADs, etc.) for schematic capture and layout.
• Expertise in PCBA Design. Ability to design and fabricate your own designs, or guide contract manufacturing resources.
• Familiarity with electronics test equipment such as power supplies, electronic loads, oscilloscope, function generators, spectrum analyzers, data acquisition and measurement sensors.
• Familiar with Product Life Cycle (PLM) systems and releasing designs for production.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience with scripting tools Python for configuration and automation of setup tasks.
• Familiarity with FPGA PCBA platforms – RTL, design synthesis, and bare‑metal coding.
• Master’s of Science in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or related field.
• Active Security Clearance or ability to obtain one.

US Salary Range

$146,000—$194,000 USD

Healthcare Benefits

• US Roles: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
• UK & AUS Roles: We cover full cost of medical insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
• IE Roles: We offer an annual contribution toward your private health insurance for you and your dependents.

Additional Benefits

• Income Protection: Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees.
• Generous time off: Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December. Caregiver & Wellness Leave is available to care for family members, bond with a new baby, or address your own medical needs.
• Family Planning & Parenting Support: Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carriers, along with resources to support you and your partner from planning to parenting.
• Mental Health Resources: Access free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching. Additional work‑life services, such as legal and financial support, are also available.
• Professional Development: Annual reimbursement for professional development.
• Commuter Benefits: Company‑funded commuter benefits based on your region.
• Relocation Assistance: Available depending on role eligibility.

Retirement Savings Plan

• US Roles: Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after‑tax (mega backdoor Roth) options.
• UK & IE Roles: Pension plan with employer match.
• AUS Roles: Superannuation plan.