Staff Electrical Engineer, Manufacturing Test (Intelligence Systems)

Anduril Industries, Inc.

Santa Ana (CA)

On-site

USD 166,000 - 220,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
Generous PTO plans
Professional development reimbursement

Job summary

A leading defense technology company in Santa Ana is hiring a Staff Electrical Engineer specializing in manufacturing tests. The role involves designing complex systems and PCBA platforms, managing requirements, and ensuring high-quality product delivery. Candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics or related fields, along with significant industry experience. The position offers a salary range of $166,000 - $220,000, and attractive benefits including comprehensive healthcare, retirement plans, and professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of relevant industry experience with emphasis on product designs that have gone to manufacturing.
  • Experience with Professional Electronics Design packages for schematic capture and layout.
  • Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build complex systems and PCBA platforms to test products.
  • Manage requirements and capture custom circuits.
  • Integrate designs into Anduril’s PDM systems.

Skills

Product design
Electronics design
Automation
Data acquisition
Testing and debugging

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics, Computer Engineering, or related fields

Tools

Altium
Cadence
Oscilloscope
Spectrum analyzers

Job description

Staff Electrical Engineer, Manufacturing Test (Intelligence Systems)

Santa Ana, California, United States

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

Intelligence Systems is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements. As the Manager of Manufacturing Test Engineering, your role encompasses the strategic oversight and tactical management of production systems to support high‑volume products across the portfolio. You are charged with ensuring rigorous testing protocols are in place, resulting in the consistent delivery of superior quality products to our customers. Furthermore, your leadership guarantees the fulfillment of manufacturing's test throughput requirements. This position demands an innovative approach to resolving complex testing challenges, advancing scalability, and enhancing our automation, throughput, user interfaces, and data analytics methodologies.

ABOUT THE JOB

As an Staff Electrical Engineer in the Manufacturing organization you will design and build complex systems and PCBA platforms to test our products. Data acquisition and physical layer interfaces using FPGA, MCU, and off‑the‑shelf equipment will enable testing our systems to stringent standards ensuring that we are consistently shipping the highest quality products to our customers. You will work in a multi‑disciplinary design team, managing requirements, capturing custom circuits, and designing complex assemblies and harnesses. You will work with firmware engineers to enable board support packages for embedded Linux, and bring up MCU RTOS platforms. In this role you’ll need to think creatively and come up with solutions to solve difficult testing problems and push to continuously improve our methods of automation, throughput, user interfaces, and data analytics.

WHAT YOU’LL DO
  • Build things that test things. Design Circuits and Schematics that will be built into test automation platforms.
  • Integrate your designs into Anduril’s PDM systems. You will follow the same process for component design and release that our product design teams use.
  • Design and source PCB Assemblies with varying complexity - from FPGA based data acquisition boards, to MCU platform data interfaces, breakout boards, wiring harnesses, or peripheral modules.
  • Architect and source circuit board test fixtures, integrating your designs with internally developed and off‑the‑shelf data acquisition equipment.
  • Build internal library for test circuit for data acquisition, leverage your expertise for DFM / DFT.
  • Bring up, Debug, and Characterize circuits, low speed interfaces (I2C, SPI, CAN, etc.) and high speed signals (RF, memory, USB).
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics, Computer Engineering, or related fields.
  • 12+ years of relevant industry experience with emphasis on product designs that have gone to manufacturing.
  • Experience with Professional Electronics Design packages (Altium, Cadence, PADs, etc.) for schematic capture and layout.
  • Expertise in PCBA Design. Ability to design and fabricate your own designs, or guide contract manufacturing resources.
  • Familiarity with electronics test equipment such as power supplies, electronic loads, oscilloscope, function generators, spectrum analyzers, data acquisition and measurement sensors.
  • Familiar with Product Life Cycle (PLM) systems and releasing designs for production.
  • Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • 14+ years of relevant industry experience.
  • Experience with scripting tools Python for configuration and automation of setup tasks.
  • Familiarity with FPGA PCBA platforms - RTL, design synthesis, and bare‑metal coding.
  • Master’s of Science in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or related field.

US Salary Range

$166,000 - $220,000 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:

Healthcare Benefits
  • US Roles: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
  • UK & AUS Roles: We cover full cost of medical insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
  • IE Roles: We offer an annual contribution toward your private health insurance for you and your dependents.
Additional Benefits
  • Income Protection: Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees.
  • Generous time off: Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December. Caregiver & Wellness Leave is available to care for family members, bond with a new baby, or address your own medical needs.
  • Family Planning & Parenting Support: Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carriers, along with resources to support you and your partner from planning to parenting.
  • Mental Health Resources: Access free mental health resources 24‑7, including therapy and life coaching. Additional work‑life services, such as legal and financial support, are also available.
  • Professional Development: Annual reimbursement for professional development.
  • Commuter Benefits: Company‑funded commuter benefits based on your region.
Retirement Savings Plan
  • US Roles: Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after‑tax (mega backdoor Roth) options.
  • UK & IE Roles: Pension plan with employer match.
  • AUS Roles: Superannuation plan.
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