Senior Hardware Engineer - Mission Compute, Thunder

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.