# Senior Hardware Engineer - Mission Compute, Thunder

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $129,000-$198,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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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.

As a Senior Hardware Engineer on the Maneuver Dominance team, you will be building Thunder - an autonomous attack rotorcraft designed to fight alongside crewed combat aviation.

**Responsibilities**

- Full cycle PCB design, including collecting requirements, schematic design, component selection, supervision or completion of layout, bring-up, test, debug, and integration with the system.

- Development of air and ground vehicle avionics systems, including flight controls, sensors, payloads, and networking.

- Collaborate with other air vehicle subsystem development teams.

- Conduct peer-level and cross-discipline design reviews.

- Build, test, and validate avionics system components through lab, ground, and flight tests.

- Low-level firmware development for bring-up and test.

- Root cause analysis in support of field operations.

- Cross-functional work between software and hardware teams.

- Development of hardware bring-up and validation test plans.

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, with 5+ years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex board designs.

- Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, thermal chambers, current-probes, and automation of tests.

- Familiarity with standard interfaces such as CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB.

- Familiarity with digital communication busses, such as Ethernet, PCIe, HDMI.

- Familiarity with common MCU, CPU, FPGA devices and technologies.

- Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits.

- Experience with electronic CAD tools (Altium preferred).

- Design for signal integrity / power integrity.

- U.S. Person status is required.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience shipping products in volume.

- Experience working on safety-critical applications.

- Understanding of DO-254, DO-178C, DO-160 and relevant avionics design standards for UAS.

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

## Skills

### Required
- PCB design
- avionics systems
- firmware development
- electronic CAD tools
- signal integrity
- power integrity
- digital communication busses
- MCU
- CPU
- FPGA devices

### Nice to have
- shipping products in volume
- safety-critical applications
- DO-254
- DO-178C
- DO-160

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