Senior Electrical Harness Engineer – Rugged Systems

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking an experienced Harness Design Lead to own the electrical harnessing for rugged military-grade systems. You will design, fabricate, and integrate harnesses, manage vendors, and ensure compliance with system-level electrical requirements in fast-paced development environments.

The role requires deep expertise in CAN, Ethernet, RS422/RS232, and MIL-STD standards, with strong communication and project-management skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• 12+ years hands-on experience designing electrical harnessing for rugged applications.
• Experience working with harness manufacturers to deliver high quality, reliable products.
• End-to-end ownership of wiring and interconnect system, including power, grounding, shielding, and signal integrity.
• Design meets system-level electrical requirements for voltage, current, bandwidth, redundancy, EMI/EMC.
• Electrical trade studies for wire gauge, shielding, connector selection, and topology.
• Analyze and mitigate electrical risks such as voltage drop, crosstalk, EMI, and thermal effects.
• Familiar with CAN, Ethernet, RS422, RS232, 1553 interfaces.
• Familiar with MIL-STD harness standards and SWaP considerations.
• Able to read wire block interconnect diagrams.

Responsibilities

• Design, fabricate and integrate harnesses for projects.
• Plan, design and develop harnesses to meet technical requirements.
• Select connectors, back-shells, contacts, wire, shielding for products.
• Develop and generate harness system block diagrams and wire diagrams for production.
• Participate in design reviews and drive design choices.
• Prepare harness assembly instructions and test procedures.
• Provide guidance to electrical team given input from stakeholders.
• Support fast-paced developments, deployments, and customer hardware.
• Concurrently manage multiple projects at various stages.

Skills

Harness design

Electrical interfaces

3D CAD routing

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

NX Cabling

Siemens Capital Harness

CATIA

CREO

2D CAD

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking an experienced Harness Design Lead to own the electrical harnessing for rugged military-grade systems. You will design, fabricate, and integrate harnesses, manage vendors, and ensure compliance with system-level electrical requirements in fast-paced development environments.

The role requires deep expertise in CAN, Ethernet, RS422/RS232, and MIL-STD standards, with strong communication and project-management skills.