# Mechatronics Engineer, Maritime **Company**: Anduril **Location**: Costa Mesa, California, United States **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $129,000-$171,000 USD **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5069228007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_224aeed9-701 ## Description We are seeking a Mechatronics Engineer with strong PCBA design experience to join our Maritime team at our Costa Mesa HQ, supporting the Dive XL extra-large unmanned underwater vehicle (XLUUV). You will own electronics that live at the seam between software, electrical, and mechanical subsystems , designing, bringing up, and troubleshooting boards that control vehicle payloads, sensors, actuators, and mission-critical subsystems in a pressurized subsea environment. The role requires high ownership, hands-on instincts, and frequent collaboration with software, systems, mechanical, and test engineers. High growth potential and additional leadership opportunities are available as the program scales. Key responsibilities include: - Design PCBAs end-to-end: requirements capture, schematic design, layout review, fabrication, assembly, bringup, and qualifications - Troubleshoot boards at the bench and in integrated vehicle configurations , isolate failures across electrical, firmware, and mechanical boundaries - Serve as the technical bridge between software, electrical, and mechanical disciplines , translate subsystem needs into electronics requirements and vice versa - Design and integrate electro-mechanical subsystems including motor drives, sensors, actuators, and power distribution for subsea operation - Perform trade studies and physics-based analysis for board architecture, component selection, and thermal/power budgets - Identify and manage relationships with PCBA fabrication, assembly, and component vendors - Lead design reviews, define and execute hardware test plans, and transition designs from prototype into production - Support vehicle integration, at-sea test events, and customer demonstrations as needed - Travel to test sites, fabrication vendors, and integration facilities as needed - Use first principles physics as the basis for every decision - Wear many hats Required qualifications include: - 5+ years of electrical / PCBA design experience in a professional setting - Proficiency in ECAD tools (Altium, KiCad, or equivalent) , schematic capture through layout - Experience taking PCBAs from concept through bringup, including bare-metal microcontroller design (STMicro, TI, NXP, or similar) - Familiarity with microcontrollers, power conversion, and system integration - Ability to read, interpret, and manipulate schematics, wiring diagrams, and PCB layouts - Experience debugging at both schematic and board level using oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, and multimeters - Demonstrated leadership on a complex technical project (collegiate project teams or professional settings) - Strong organizational skills and the ability to drive work independently across disciplinary boundaries - High competence with, and fluid use of, engineering first principles - BS in an engineering field, or equivalent work experience - Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance Preferred qualifications include: - MS in an engineering field - Active U.S. Top Secret security clearance - Experience designing electronics for rugged, marine, or pressure-sealed environments - MCAD experience (NX) and comfort collaborating on enclosure, connector, and harness design - Hands-on prototyping (soldering, rework, board assembly, harnessing) - Experience bringing up device trees on embedded Linux systems with a variety of connected sensors - Experience characterizing circuits at both schematic and board level - Experience with microcontroller wired communication protocols (USB, MIPI CSI2, SPI, I2C, CAN/CANFD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485) - Experience with motor and servo drive design (BLDC / brushed motor controllers, servo control systems) - Familiarity with wireless and subsea communication protocols (acoustic modems, RF, Ethernet) - Experience bridging firmware and electrical work-streams , writing or reviewing low-level drivers, bringup scripts, or HIL test infrastructure - Experience developing complex electronics hardware products (UUVs, UAVs, robotics, propulsion systems, or other complex mechatronic platforms) ## Skills ### Required - PCB design - ECAD tools - microcontrollers - power conversion - system integration - debugging - leadership - organizational skills - engineering first principles - security clearance ### Nice to have - MCAD experience - hands-on prototyping - embedded Linux systems - microcontroller wired communication protocols - motor and servo drive design - wireless and subsea communication protocols - firmware and electrical work-streams - complex electronics hardware products --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5069228007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)