# Lead Mechatronics Engineer

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril is seeking a Senior Mechatronics Engineer to join the Air Dominance & Strike team at our Costa Mesa HQ. You will work on core product development for complex systems, including optical systems, batteries, mechanisms, control systems, and sensors.

Responsibilities:

- Execute rapid evaluation of engineering concepts in a wide range of fields

- Identify partners in industry to engage with, and manage early vendor relationships

- Perform trade studies and physics-based analysis of blue-sky engineering problems

- Manage internal and external market research and comparisons

- Design, implementation, and test of complex electro-mechanical systems

- High level system ownership with large levels of professional autonomy

- Lead design reviews, run analysis, visit vendors, define and execute hardware test plans

- Build prototypes, analyze failures, and transition successful projects into production

- Support critical hardware demonstrations with customers as needed

- Travel to test sites as needed

- Use first principles physics as a basis for every decision

Requirements:

- Experience in an immersive technical project (collegiate project teams or professional settings)

- Demonstrated leadership skills (collegiate project teams or professional settings)

- 5+ years of electrical/design experience in a professional setting

- Experience in PCB design and any ECAD (Altium, KiCAD, etc)

- Experience in Mechanical design for loads, stress, mounting and attachment fabrication

- Hands-on prototyping (soldering, board assembly, harnessing)

- Experience with any: controls/actuation, robotics, and or motor/servo drive systems (BLDC/brushed motor controller design and servo control systems)

- Familiarity with microcontrollers, power conversion and system integration

- Ability to read, interpret, and manipulate schematics, wiring diagrams, and layouts

- High competence with, and fluid use of, engineering first principles

- Strong organizational skills

- BS, MS or PhD in an engineering field, or equivalent work experience

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in bare metal microcontroller design (STMicro, TI, NXP, etc) from schematic to bringup

- Outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills

- Familiarity with designing for rugged environments

- Experience in bringing up device trees on embedded systems with a variety of connected sensors

- Experience with Electro-Mechanical and Electrical design concepts

- Experience in developing a variety of electronics hardware products (UGVs, wearables, firearms, high power electric propulsion, optical systems, or other complex mechanisms)

- Experience in characterizing circuits at both schematic and board level

- Familiarity with wireless communication protocols

- Experience with microcontroller wired communication protocols (USB, MIPI CSI2, SPI, I2C, CAN, CANFD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485)

- Practical experience with electrical engineering tools (Oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, multimeters)

Benefits:

- Competitive salary range: $146,000-$194,000 USD

- Highly competitive equity grants

- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees

## Skills

### Required
- PCB design
- ECAD
- Mechanical design
- Hands-on prototyping
- Controls/actuation
- Robotics
- Motor/servo drive systems
- Microcontrollers
- Power conversion
- System integration
- Schematics
- Wiring diagrams
- Layouts
- Engineering first principles

### Nice to have
- Bare metal microcontroller design
- Leadership and interpersonal skills
- Designing for rugged environments
- Device trees on embedded systems
- Electro-Mechanical and Electrical design concepts
- Electronics hardware products
- Circuit characterization
- Wireless communication protocols
- Microcontroller wired communication protocols
- Electrical engineering tools

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