Senior Electrical Test Engineer, Intelligence Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

Generous paid time off

401(k) retirement savings plan

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Santa Ana, CA is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to design complex systems and PCBA platforms for testing. The role requires 8+ years of product design experience and knowledge in PCB assembly and integration with Anduril’s PDM systems. The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's degree in a related field and expertise in electronics design packages. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from $146,000 to $194,000 and comprehensive benefits including medical and retirement options.

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 for schematic capture and layout.
• Expertise in PCBA design.

Responsibilities

• Design circuits and schematics for test automation platforms.
• Integrate designs into Anduril’s PDM systems.
• Design and source PCB assemblies of varying complexity.
• Architect and source circuit board test fixtures.

Skills

Product design experience

Circuit design

Electronics testing

FPGA familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics, Computer Engineering

Tools

Altium

Cadence

Function generators

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 Team

Intelligence Systems is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements.

As the Manager of Manufacturing Test Engineering, your role encompasses the strategic oversight and tactical management of production systems to support high‑volume products across the portfolio. You are charged with ensuring rigorous testing protocols are in place, resulting in the consistent delivery of superior quality products to our customers. Furthermore, your leadership guarantees the fulfillment of manufacturing's test throughput requirements. This position demands an innovative approach to resolving complex testing challenges, advancing scalability, and enhancing our automation, throughput, user interfaces, and data analytics methodologies.

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

• Design circuits and schematics that will be built into test automation platforms.
• Integrate your designs into Anduril’s PDM systems following the same process for component design and release used by our product design teams.
• Design and source PCB assemblies of 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 an internal library for test circuit for data acquisition, leveraging your expertise for DFM/DFT.
• Bring up, debug, and characterize circuits and interfaces: 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.
• Familiarity with product lifecycle (PLM) systems and releasing designs for production.
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

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.

Salary

$146,000–$194,000 USD

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost (U.S. roles).
• Full coverage of medical insurance premiums for you and your dependents (UK & AUS roles).
• Annual contribution toward private health insurance for you and your dependents (IE roles).
• Income protection: life and disability insurance for all employees.
• Generous time off: highly competitive paid time off, holiday hiatus in December, caregiver & wellness leave.
• Family planning & parent support: coverage for fertility treatments, adoption, etc.
• Mental health resources: free 24/7 therapy and life coaching, plus additional work‑life services.
• Professional development: annual reimbursement.
• Commuter benefits: company‑funded based on region.
• Relocation assistance: available depending on role eligibility.
• Retirement savings: 401(k), Roth, after‑tax options for U.S. roles; pension plan with employer match for UK & IE; superannuation plan for AUS.