Senior Mechatronics Engineer, Omen

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

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Mechatronics Engineer to own the integration of electromechanical actuation, sensing, and control subsystems for Omen’s hover-to-cruise transition. You will ensure EO/IR sensors, gimbals, and payload interfaces perform reliably across flight envelopes.

Responsibilities include bridging software/hardware teams, hardware integration end-to-end, and leading test campaigns. Travel up to 25% is required.

Qualifications

• 4+ years hands-on electromechanical and sensor integration experience in robotics, aerospace, or similar.
• 3+ years of C++ (or Rust) in a Linux environment; demonstrated software for hardware.
• Experience with sensor characterization, calibration, and coordinate frame management.
• Ability to travel 25% with potential surges.

Responsibilities

• Bridge the software team and hardware teams to align efforts.
• Own payload hardware integration end to end, including EO/IR sensors and gimbals.
• Drive mission system selection balancing performance, SWaP, thermal and latency.
• Characterize sensors on bench and in flight; analyze noise, bias, drift, boresight.
• Define payload interface control, harnessing, and time synchronization.
• Write production software and firmware for payload subsystems.
• Support aircraft integration, bring-up, and flight test campaigns.
• Lead root-cause investigations across mechanical, electrical, and software domains.

Skills

C++

Rust

Python

Sensor integration

Electromechanical

Real-time systems

Ethernet

CAN

UART

I2C

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

SolidWorks

NX

Python (tools)

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

The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. Omen is Anduril’s hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle (AAV) that packs the endurance, payload, and mission flexibility of much larger airplanes into a novel runway-independent Group 3 platform. Omen can operate from ship decks, beaches, or remote island clearings, providing true runway independence and freedom of maneuver across defense and civilian domains. Omen is the first tail-sitter aircraft with a mass-production contract, with an order of 50 systems representing a decisive investment that anchors production and accelerates the development of future systems.

ABOUT THE JOB

Formula SAE, Baja SAE, Design Build Fly, or an equivalent history of building things that move. We need a Mechatronics Engineer to own the integration of electromechanical actuation, sensing, and control subsystems that enable Omen's hover-to-cruise transition, ensuring every system, payload, and sensor interface performs reliably across the full flight envelope.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Bridge the software team and hardware teams, ensuring both teams are in alignment.
• Own payload hardware integration end to end. EO/IR and imaging sensors, RF payloads, gimbals, rangefinders, inertial and position sensing.
• Drive mission system selection through trade studies balancing performance, SWaP, thermal, latency, and environmental robustness.
• Characterize sensors on the bench and in flight: noise, latency, bias and drift, boresight stability, and failure modes
• Define and own payload interface control; mechanical mounting and alignment, power and signal definitions, harnessing, vehicle bus integration, and time synchronization
• Write production software and firmware for payload subsystems; drivers, sensor processing, pointing and stabilization control loops, calibration and coordinate frame libraries, health management
• Support aircraft integration, bring-up, and functional checkout, and plan and execute ground and flight test campaigns for payload performance
• Lead root‑cause investigations for payload and pointing anomalies spanning mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software boundaries
• Feed lessons learned back into ICDs, calibration procedures, and production assembly and acceptance test documentation

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Mechatronics, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace, Computer Science, or Physics
• 4+ years of hands‑on electromechanical and sensor integration experience in robotics, aerospace, or similar
• 3+ years of C++ (or Rust) in a Linux environment, plus tooling in Python; demonstrated experience developing software for hardware
• Proficiency across a meaningful portion of the robotics stack, from sensor interfacing to actuation. Partial stack is okay
• Solid grasp of low‑level communications (Ethernet, CAN, UART, SPI, I2C), real‑time systems, and motor control
• Experience with sensor characterization, calibration, and coordinate frame management; cameras, IMUs, encoders, GNSS, or LIDAR
• Experience building and executing hardware test rigs, with competence on oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, DMMs, and test automation
• Ability to read schematics, support board bring‑up, and define harnesses alongside EEs; familiarity with CAD (SolidWorks, NX, or equivalent)
• High ownership and a bias toward action
• Ability to travel 25% with potential surges above 25%
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• VTOL, tail‑sitter, or rotorcraft experience, and familiarity with the payload environment they create (vibration, EMI, rotor wash)
• Experience with rapid payload/sensor integration onto unmanned platforms, including flight test support
• Experience with gimbals, stabilized pointing, boresighting, and geo‑referencing or targeting chains
• Experience in perception, localization, mapping, tracking, or guidance, and related system performance metrics
• Embedded firmware in C, including device drivers and optimizing for limited resources
• Familiarity with avionics buses (ARINC 429, MIL‑STD‑1553, Ethernet avionics) and time sync (PTP, PPS)
• Modeling and controls in MATLAB/Simulink; experience building SIL/HIL simulators
• Environmental qualification testing experience (MIL‑STD‑810, MIL‑STD‑461) for electromechanical assemblies
• Experience troubleshooting remotely deployed software on fielded hardware

US Salary Range

$146,000—$194,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top‑tier benefits for full‑time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.