Senior Electrical Engineer, Sustainment – Secret Clearance

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Costa Mesa (CA)

On-site

USD 116,000 - 194,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA, is seeking a Senior Electrical Product Sustainment Engineer to keep production running post‑field deployment. You will triage failures, drive root-cause investigations, and manage field data to understand population‑level impact.

You’ll work with Quality, Supply Chain, and Production Operations to keep builds on plan and surface issues that threaten schedules. You will lead design and process improvements to enhance yield, reliability, and manufacturability,

Qualifications

  • Active U.S. Secret security clearance required.
  • 8+ years of hardware product development, sustainment, or manufacturing engineering.
  • Experience with root cause analysis and structured problem‑solving methods (8D, 5 Whys, fishbone, FMEA).

Responsibilities

  • Triage product failures from production and field, prioritizing by severity and population impact.
  • Drive root cause investigations to the PCB fabrication level and implement corrective actions as design or process updates.
  • Collect, manage, and analyze failure and field data to quantify population‑level impact and trends.
  • Collaborate with Quality, Supply Chain, and Production Operations to keep builds on plan.
  • Surface and elevate issues that threaten the build schedule and drive resolution.
  • Implement design and process changes that improve yield, reliability, and manufacturability.
  • Evaluate supplier PCNs and coordinate with design to update products as needed.
  • Support production test, debug, and failure analysis at board and system levels.

Skills

Root cause analysis
Structured problem-solving
Data analysis
Schematic reading
Electronics knowledge
Cross-functional collaboration
Problem solving

Tools

Excel
SQL
Python
JMP

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA, is seeking a Senior Electrical Product Sustainment Engineer to keep production running post‑field deployment. You will triage failures, drive root-cause investigations, and manage field data to understand population‑level impact.

You’ll work with Quality, Supply Chain, and Production Operations to keep builds on plan and surface issues that threaten schedules. You will lead design and process improvements to enhance yield, reliability, and manufacturability,

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