# R&D Engineering Technician

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Lexington, Massachusetts
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,000-$114,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

In this role, you will collaborate closely with development and test engineers to create and evaluate innovative optical systems for various platforms, including airborne, maritime, and space applications.

You will be responsible for fabricating high-quality electro-mechanical assemblies and managing the rapid prototyping process, ensuring all projects are executed efficiently and effectively.

Additionally, your expertise in troubleshooting and assembly will be crucial as you oversee internal prototyping resources and support external testing initiatives.

### Responsibilities

- Work closely with development and test engineers to build and test new optical systems for airborne, maritime and space platforms

- Fabricate and assemble high quality, high reliability and electro-mechanical assemblies

- Develop and implement integration and test fixtures; setup and use existing test equipment, monitor, and report the results

- Own internal prototyping resources, including mechanical and electrical fabrication equipment

- Manage R+D space from a facilities and organizational standpoint

- Travel to external laboratories and test sites as needed

### Qualifications

- Minimum 4 years experience as a technician working on complex electro-mechanical assemblies

- Ability to work through R&D tasks with limited oversight (evaluate, design, order materials, execute)

- Experience with building and troubleshooting cables and wiring harnesses

- Familiar and comfortable with soldering, crimping, assembling cables and connectors

- Basic electrical understanding (able to calculate voltage drop, size wire based on amperage, Ohm's Law, etc.)

- Ability to take ownership of entire rapid prototyping process from start to finish

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

### Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with the alignment and characterization of optical systems

- Experience with 3D printing for prototyping a plus

- Experience operating manual machine tools (milling machine, lathe)

- Experience with test and measurement equipment (Instron, CMM, optical comparator, etc.)

- Familiarity with Mechanical and Electrical Software tools (Solidworks, Altium) and scripting/automation languages (Matlab, Python, Labview)

### Benefits

The salary range for this role is $86,000-$114,000 USD. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees.

## Skills

### Required
- electro-mechanical assemblies
- troubleshooting
- assembly
- soldering
- crimping
- cables and wiring harnesses
- basic electrical understanding
- rapid prototyping
- U.S. Secret security clearance

### Nice to have
- alignment and characterization of optical systems
- 3D printing
- manual machine tools
- test and measurement equipment
- Mechanical and Electrical Software tools
- scripting/automation languages

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