Senior Electrical Test Engineer: PCB & Test Lead

Anduril Industries; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Santa Ana, California seeks a Senior Electrical Test Engineer to design and build complex test systems and PCBAs ensuring product quality before shipping.

You will own full-cycle PCB design for test hardware—from requirements through fabrication and integration with production test environments—while collaborating with firmware, applying DFT, and driving release processes with PLM traceability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or 10+ years of equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in electrical hardware design for manufacturing.
• Expertise in PCBA design with ownership of boards.
• Proficient with Altium Designer or equivalent E-CAD.
• Familiar with Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, USB interfaces.
• Active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design circuits and schematics for test automation platforms (FPGA, MCU interfaces).
• Own full-cycle PCB design for test hardware from requirements to fabrication and assembly.
• Architect and source PCB test fixtures integrating data acquisition equipment.
• Bring up, debug, and characterize circuits across I2C, SPI, CAN and high-speed signals.
• Apply DFT to enable robust tester designs for new products.
• Collaborate with firmware to enable board support packages for embedded Linux.
• Integrate designs into configuration management and release processes.
• Improve test automation, throughput, and data analytics over time.

Skills

PCB design

Hardware testing

Schematic capture

FPGA/MCU interfaces

CAN I2C SPI USB

DFT

Communication skills

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering

10+ years of advanced hardware design experience (in lieu of degree)

Tools

Altium Designer

PLM systems

Schematic capture tools

Job description

Anduril Industries in Santa Ana, California seeks a Senior Electrical Test Engineer to design and build complex test systems and PCBAs ensuring product quality before shipping.

You will own full-cycle PCB design for test hardware—from requirements through fabrication and integration with production test environments—while collaborating with firmware, applying DFT, and driving release processes with PLM traceability.