Senior Mechatronics Engineer: UAV Payload & Autonomy

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 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.