Lead Mechatronics Engineer

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