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From the employer's careers site First seen 14 Nov 2026

Lead Hardware Engineer

Salary

$167,000-$222,000 USD per year

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Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

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.

As the Lead Hardware Engineer, you will be responsible for hardware architecture, development execution, and overall technical strategy for land, sea, air, and space EO/IR applications.

Responsibilities

  • Own concept design and hardware architecture decisions for new engineering efforts
  • Partner with Chief Engineers and product teams to align engineering execution with broader mission and capability goals
  • Lead engineering execution across hardware engineering disciplines
  • Drive products through NPI - lead initial builds, own clear to build, drive procedure and process generation, define V+V metrics
  • Sustainment - Own the detailed continuous improvement roadmap and execution, oversee CRB activities, reactively deal with issues that impact the business, ensure timely and robust response to field issues
  • Prioritize all of the above both within and across products in a mission area

Required Qualifications

  • Degree in a technical field such as mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, optical engineering, systems engineering, math, or a hard science
  • 8+ years of experience working with developing and deploying electromechanical systems
  • Experience managing New Product Introduction and exposure to system sustainment at scale
  • Deep understanding of system architecture, mission requirements, and full product lifecycle development
  • Proven experience leading high-performance engineering teams
  • Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance
  • Willingness to travel to test sites, as needed

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience defining and/or designing optical/imaging systems
  • Knowledge of current and next-generation advanced sensing systems and platforms
  • Experience with rapid prototyping and iterative development environments
  • Hands-on experience with advanced design tools, simulation, and test equipment

Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including a comprehensive, competitive benefits package.

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • optical/imaging systems
  • advanced sensing systems
  • rapid prototyping
  • iterative development environments
  • advanced design tools
  • simulation
  • test equipment

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