Staff Systems Architect, Space Electronics

Anduril Industries; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 143,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Staff Systems Architect for the Imaging team to own the electronics architecture of space-bound imaging payloads. You will define the electrical architecture, perform build-versus-buy tradeoffs, and hands-on layout, bring-up, and qualification to meet a sub-12-month flight readiness goal.

Lead power, sensor, and interface electronics while mentoring engineers. You will drive rapid design-build-test cycles, apply DFM/DFA from day one, and collaborate with firmware,

Qualifications

• Experience in system-level architecture for complex electromechanical/sensor systems.
• Hands-on hardware bring-up, debugging, and test in lab environments.
• Ability to balance tradeoffs to meet schedule and cost goals (build vs buy, rad-hard vs COTS).

Responsibilities

• Own the electrical architecture for imaging payloads and drive tradeoffs for schedule and cost.
• Lead PCB design, layout, bring-up, and qualification across analog, digital, mixed-signal, and power electronics.
• Translate performance models into electrical requirements and ensure critical-path contributions.
• Drive rapid build‑test cycles and iterate on real hardware toward flight readiness.
• Design for space environment, radiation, thermal extremes, vacuum, vibration, and launch loads.
• Incorporate DFM/DFA principles to scale designs for low-rate production.
• Lead board bring-up, integration, and troubleshooting during environmental tests.

Skills

System-level architecture

PCB layout

Hands-on test

Cross-functional collaboration

Engineering judgment

Security clearance eligibility

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Tools

MATLAB

Python

C++

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 Anduril Imaging team develops state-of-the-art imaging systems across both hardware and software, deployed to tackle the most significant security challenges of America and its allies. The team is heavily involved in utilizing computer vision, perception, electro‑optical, infrared, and sensor data to give the US and its allies an advantage.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Staff Systems Architect on the Anduril Imaging team, you will own the electronics architecture for space‑bound imaging payloads and drive their design from concept through flight. This is a system‑level role for an engineer who can hold the whole payload in their head — defining the electrical architecture, making the build‑versus‑buy and COTS‑versus‑rad‑hard tradeoffs that keep schedule and cost in check, and then going hands‑on to lay out, bring up, and qualify the hardware. You will set the technical direction for power, sensor, and interface electronics, and remain hands‑on to see your individual designs take flight. You will work in rapid design cycles where the goal is to get capable, robust hardware into space in twelve months or less. You will make well‑informed engineering judgments about which requirements are load‑bearing and which aren't, iterate on real hardware, and demonstrate the discipline to design for manufacturability and test from day one. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy and be a technical anchor for less experienced engineers on the team.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own the electrical architecture for imaging payloads, partitioning the system, defining power, sensor, data, and interface electronics, and driving the architectural tradeoffs (COTS vs. rad‑hard, performance vs. schedule vs. cost) that enable a sub‑12‑month path to orbit.
• Lead the design, layout, bring‑up, and qualification of PCBAs spanning analog, digital, mixed‑signal, and power electronics for EO/IR sensor systems.
• Translate sensor and system performance models into electrical requirements, and push back on requirements that don't earn their place on the critical path.
• Drive rapid design‑build‑test cycles: prototype quickly, characterize on the bench, iterate on real hardware, and converge on flight‑ready designs without unnecessary cycles.
• Design for the space environment (radiation, thermal extremes, vacuum, vibration, and launch loads) and own the analysis and testing (TVAC, vibe, EMI/EMC) that proves it.
• Bake in design for manufacturability and assembly (DFM/DFA) from the first schematic so designs scale cleanly toward low‑rate production as programs mature.
• Lead board bring‑up, integration, and troubleshooting in the lab and during environmental and integration testing, using standard bench equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, DMMs, etc.).
• Partner closely with firmware, optics, mechanical, systems, and program teams to drive integration and close out anomalies fast.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other electrical engineers, and serve as a design‑review and decision‑making anchor for the electronics scope.
• Document architectures, designs, analyses, and test results to a standard that supports flight readiness and program reviews.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 12+ years of experience in electrical engineering spanning system‑level architecture, electronics design, and hands‑on test, with a track record of owning designs end to end.
• A degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Demonstrated ownership of electronics architecture for a complex electromechanical or sensor system, including the tradeoff decisions that shaped it.
• Strong analog, digital, mixed‑signal, and power electronics design experience, with deep schematic capture and PCB layout proficiency.
• Proven ability to take hardware from architecture through bring‑up, integration, and qualification — including hands‑on debug in the lab.
• Experience delivering hardware on aggressive timelines and working in rapid, iterative design cycles.
• Excellent engineering judgment, problem‑solving, and the ability to make sound decisions with incomplete information under schedule pressure.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across a multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 12+ years of experience in electrical engineering spanning system‑level architecture, electronics design, and hands‑on test, with a track record of owning designs end to end.
• Direct experience designing electronics for space, especially New Space / commercial‑cadence programs that flew hardware in a year or less.
• Familiarity with the space environment and qualification: radiation effects (TID/SEE), rad‑hard and rad‑tolerant part selection, COTS‑for‑space approaches, TVAC, vibration, and EMI/EMC.
• Experience with EO/IR, RF, optical, or other sensor and communication systems.
• Experience designing for manufacturability and assembly, and transitioning proven designs toward low‑rate production to make them more robust and lower cost.
• Familiarity with analytical tools and programming languages such as MATLAB, Python, or C++.
• Understanding of system integration processes and workflows in aerospace or defense environments.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading design reviews.

US Salary Range

$143,000 — $191,000 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

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